Brain structures found that distinguish successful gamers
Scientists have figured out which parts of the brain help in the passage of computer games. These are only three tiny bodies: the nucleus accumbens (blue in the illustration), the caudate nucleus (orange dot) and the shell (red). By their volume, you can accurately evaluate the success of a future gamer.
The illustration also shows the hippocampus (green). His connection to computer games abilities was not found.
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Kirk Erickson (Kirk Erickson) from the University of Pittsburgh with ten colleagues published their work in the journal Cerebral Cortex ( PDF ). This is the first scientific study of its kind in the world.
Especially for the experience developed a simple arcade game Space Fortress (based on Asteroids), where the strategic task is to destroy the opponent's base, and the tactical task is to constantly explore the mines. The game has a bunch of small features that require special attention.
During the experience, half of the players were given the task of scoring the maximum number of points, and others - of distributing priorities between several tasks. As a result, it was found that gamers with a large volume of the adjacent core were much better trained in the early stages of the game, and those with different areas of the striatum, known as the caudate nucleus and shell, were better at managing priorities.
The experiments involved 10 men and 29 women aged from 18 to 28 years. The experimental results are fairly accurate and verifiable. True, it remains to verify the purity of the experience, because the investigated areas of the brain could have developed in experimental subjects in childhood, when they played arcades, that is, the question of cause and effect remains open. True, each subject guaranteed that he played no more than three hours a week in the previous two years. But according to some experts, such a guarantee is not enough.
Computer games abilities point to more intelligent people who are easier to learn. The results of these studies will determine the areas of the brain that are responsible for learning, in order to stimulate them in the future with drugs or directly. Probably in the future this will be done from kindergarten and elementary school, so that children can easily learn several programming languages in the first grade.
via Cosmic Log
The illustration also shows the hippocampus (green). His connection to computer games abilities was not found.
')
Kirk Erickson (Kirk Erickson) from the University of Pittsburgh with ten colleagues published their work in the journal Cerebral Cortex ( PDF ). This is the first scientific study of its kind in the world.
Especially for the experience developed a simple arcade game Space Fortress (based on Asteroids), where the strategic task is to destroy the opponent's base, and the tactical task is to constantly explore the mines. The game has a bunch of small features that require special attention.During the experience, half of the players were given the task of scoring the maximum number of points, and others - of distributing priorities between several tasks. As a result, it was found that gamers with a large volume of the adjacent core were much better trained in the early stages of the game, and those with different areas of the striatum, known as the caudate nucleus and shell, were better at managing priorities.
The experiments involved 10 men and 29 women aged from 18 to 28 years. The experimental results are fairly accurate and verifiable. True, it remains to verify the purity of the experience, because the investigated areas of the brain could have developed in experimental subjects in childhood, when they played arcades, that is, the question of cause and effect remains open. True, each subject guaranteed that he played no more than three hours a week in the previous two years. But according to some experts, such a guarantee is not enough.
Computer games abilities point to more intelligent people who are easier to learn. The results of these studies will determine the areas of the brain that are responsible for learning, in order to stimulate them in the future with drugs or directly. Probably in the future this will be done from kindergarten and elementary school, so that children can easily learn several programming languages in the first grade.
via Cosmic Log
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/81481/
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