Are we all perhaps linked by invisible bonds? Do the actions of one affect others, even if those others are far away? Our lives and the universe itself may be all part of a single mechanism in which all creatures and events are 'entangled' with one another.

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Videogames ARE Good For You !

Next time someone tells you you're spending too much time playing videogames, just tell them "I'm not playing....I'm exercising my mind !"
Brad Evans, right, a Ryerson engineering student, and his friend Jeremy Netto play video games in his Toronto apartment.
Brad Evans, right, a Ryerson engineering student, and his friend Jeremy Netto play video games in his Toronto apartment. (Jim Ross/The Globe and Mail)

Better living through video games?

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

When he snags downtime from his schoolwork, Ryerson University student Brad Evans gabs with friends, grooves to Kanye West on his MP3 player and races virtual hotrods on his Sony PlayStation. All at the same time.

Before you assume gadgets and video games fry the minds of the future, consider this: Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging.

A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are gamers adept at shutting out distractions to swiftly switch attention between different tasks.

A new study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto has found that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable.

"The people who were video game players were better and faster performers," said psychologist Ellen Bialystok, a research professor at York University. "Those who were bilingual and video game addicts scored best -- particularly at the most difficult tasks."

There's more to this article in the Globe And Mail, if you'd like to read the rest of it.






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