U.S. Navy : Videogames Improve Brains

Here's Ray Perez, program officer for the Office of Naval Research's warfighter performance department:

"We have discovered that video game players perform 10 to 20 percent higher in terms of perceptual and cognitive ability than normal people that are non-game players," s

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"We know that video games can increase perceptual abilities and short-term memory," he said. They allow the player to focus longer and expand the player's field of vision compared to people who don't play video games, he added.

While there is empirical evidence of increased brain plasticity in video gamers, Perez said, the process behind it is not well understood. His belief, he said, is that the neural networks involved in video gaming become more pronounced, have increased blood flow, and become more synchronized with other neural networks in the brain.



Pois é, mais uma prova de que nem tudo é negativo nos videojogos. Hoje em dia é difícil encontrar coisas que nos façam usar a massa cinzenta, e os videojogos (alguns) devem ser valorizados por tal facto.