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Research: Predicting Video Game Skills Through Brain Imaging

By james_fudge

New research from the University of Illinois unearths a technique that can predict "with unprecedented accuracy" how well a subject can perform on complex tasks simply by analyzing a certain part of the brain. University of Illinois Beckman Institute director Art Kramer and colleagues have developed a way to predict how well study subjects would do on a strategic video game using established brain imaging techniques.

Using magnetic resonance imaging and multivoxel pattern analysis, researchers found differences in patterns of a "particular type of MRI signal, called T2, in the basal ganglia of study subjects." Analyzing these differences enabled researchers to predict between 55 - 68 percent of the differences in performance among 34 subjects who later learned to play a game developed by the university. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 14, 2011 (boomark / email).