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Study: Gaming Changes Way Brain Works

By pete_gallagher

According to a recent study, gamers use a different part of their brain than non-gamers when performing tasks that require synchronization between physical movement and visually provided information (visuomotor).

Extensive Video-Game Experience Alters Cortical Networks for Complex Visuomotor Transformations is the long name of the study, which was performed by researchers at the Centre for Vision Research at Canada's York University and published in the October 2010 issue of Cortex.

The study pitted 13 young men who played videogames at least four hours a week for the previous three years against an equal number of subjects who did not play games, and placed all of them in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine while challenging them with a series of 'increasingly difficult visuomotor tasks, such as using a joystick or looking one way while reaching another way.' Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).