Video Games Can Provide Better Living
Globe and Mail has a fascinating article regarding the benefits of video games. Experts and researchers are now saying that the multitasking involved in video game playing can help keep brains young. They’ve associated gamers with bilanguals, whom studies show are less likely to suffer from cognitive decline.
The York team recently compared 94 bilinguals and monolinguals between the ages of 30 and 80. It found that while both groups started showing cognitive decline by age 60, the rate of slowing for bilinguals was much slower.
Now young people who play video games are showing this similar pattern of high performance in resisting irrelevant impulses. The current report compared 50 avid players against 50 non-players and then subdivided each group between bilinguals and monolinguals.
When asked to describe the colour of the word “blue,” for example, when it is written in green ink, non-players were far more likely to choose the dominant impulse and say “blue,” though the colour is green. “The [video game players] are much harder to mislead, to trick,” Prof. Bialystok said.
Awesome. And hey, I’m almost trilangual! That must mean I’m … uh …
Hm. I lost my train of thought.
[Thanks, Matt!]
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4 opinions for Video Games Can Provide Better Living
Matt
Feb 13, 2006 at 3:19 am
This is a time when we stand up and collectively shout “Vindication!!”
Eat it Jack Thompson! I may be a Nazi/Zombie/Terrorist/Evil murderer but I’m smarter for it!!!
Cal
Feb 13, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Whoo hoo - just the ammunition I need to convince the GLW that I need to play more video games.
Thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you.
Cal
Feb 14, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Hmm, didn’t work. Next…
fin212
Feb 8, 2007 at 8:19 pm
I think that video games are good for kids as long as they are not to violent.I beleive kids playing agmes is better than kids on the streets getting into trouble.
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