whether a clump of erratically moving dots was migrating right or left across the screen on average).

In the tasks, the participants had to look at a screen, analyze what was going on, and answer a simple question about the action in as little time as possible (i.e. One group played 50 hours of the fast-paced action video games 'Call of Duty 2' and 'Unreal Tournament,' and the other group played 50 hours of the slow-moving strategy game 'The Sims 2.'Īfter this training period, all of the subjects were asked to make quick decisions in several tasks designed by the researchers.

The researchers tested dozens of 18- to 25-year-olds who were not ordinarily video game players. Video games have grown in popularity to the point where 68 percent of American households have members that play them, according to a 2009 report by the Entertainment Software Association. Shawn Green report that video games could provide a potent training regimen for speeding up reactions in many types of real-life situations. In an upcoming study in the journal Current Biology, authors Daphne Bavelier, Alexandre Pouget, and C.

The researchers found that video game players develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this benefit doesn't just make them better at playing video games, but improves a wide variety of general skills that can help with everyday activities like multitasking, driving, reading small print, keeping track of friends in a crowd, and navigating around town.Īction Video Games Found to Sharpen Decision-Making (CBS News) Study Suggests That Video Games Could be Training Tool for Quicker ReactionsĬognitive scientists from the University of Rochester have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. This was one task used by UR professor of brain and cognitive science Daphne Bavelier and colleagues in their study, 'Improved probabilistic inference as a general learning mechanism with action video games', to determine whether playing video games makes people faster decision makers while having no detrimental effect on accuracy.'

'A test subject attempts to determine whether the erratically moving dots on a computer screen are moving left or right on average during a study at the University of Rochester August 24, 2010.

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