Maybe FPS Ain't So Bad After All
Researchers at the University of Rochester made subjects play games like Unreal Tournament for a few hours a day over the course of a month. Then something incredible happened:
Subjects "improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter--a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics."
Or to put it another way, playing Halo could improve your performance on a standard eye chart.
Interestingly, the effect only showed up in games like Unreal Tournament--not in games like Tetris.
The researchers have, at least in their own minds, ruled out the possibility that the eye itself is changing, which leaves only one alternative--that playing action video games actually re-wires the brain's visual system.
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Subjects "improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter--a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics."
Or to put it another way, playing Halo could improve your performance on a standard eye chart.
Interestingly, the effect only showed up in games like Unreal Tournament--not in games like Tetris.
The researchers have, at least in their own minds, ruled out the possibility that the eye itself is changing, which leaves only one alternative--that playing action video games actually re-wires the brain's visual system.
http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=action_videogames_improve_vision_might_r />
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