Study: Video Games not so Mindless
05-28-03, 05:41 PM
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Researchers at the University of Rochester found that young adults who regularly played video games full of high-speed car chases and blazing gun battles showed better visual skills than those who did not. For example, they kept better track of objects appearing simultaneously and processed fast-changing visual information more efficiently.
05-28-03, 05:43 PM
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I should add that they've been doing studies like these since the beginning of video games. I remember a study published in the WSJ (my dad used to cut out articles for me) when I was a kid about how Atari 2600 games were making kids smarter and gave them better hand-eye etc... After that, my dad stopped giving me crap about playing games all day and was actually proud of me sort of. 
