Summary: Could playing video games make you smarter?

Everyone knows that children, and sometimes adults, love video games. Parents and some experts are concerned about the negative effects of technology on children's lives. However, it seems that shooting terrorists or zombies in video games can be more than just an adrenaline rush. This week the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presented a new study shows for the first time that people who play action games, "Call of Duty" and "Unreal Tournament 2004" for example, show greater capacity to learn than those who played non-action games like "Restaurant Empire" and "The Sims 2". Furthermore, these improvements were still with them when they were tested again a year later. This study was done by a research professor in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, Daphne Bavelier and her team of researchers. She said that our brains can keep predicting what comes next - whether when listening to a conversation, driving, or even performing surgery. Thus, they build models in order to sharpen its prediction skills. And now we know that action video game actually promotes better templates. The study was done by comparing the visual performance of 10 players who played action games and the visual performance of 10 individuals who played non-action games. The researchers measured the ability of the players to distinguish one set of black and white lines from another that were presented in rapid fashion. Then, researchers turned to neural modeling to understand why the action gamers performed so much better. However, not everyone agrees with this research. The Ohio State professor Brad J. Bushman, who has done extensive research on the effects of violent video games on the players, questions whether the violence was necessary to produce learning. 

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