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Video Gamers really do see more

Mihai Andrei by Mihai Andrei
June 12, 2013
in Health, Mind & Brain

Hours and hours spent at computers or gaming consoles do have their advantages – not only do they train reaction times and adaptation, but they also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers.

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“Gamers see the world differently,” said Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Duke School of Medicine. “They are able to extract more information from a visual scene.”

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to conduct studies like this one – because fewer and fewer students don’t play computer games – but from  a pool of subjects participating in a much larger study in Stephen Mitroff’s Visual Cognition Lab at Duke, the researchers found 125 participants who were either non-gamers – or on the contrary, very intense gamers.

Participants were shown a circle of 8 letters, which were flashed for just 0.1 seconds. After that, an arrow appeared pointing to one spot on the circle where a letter had been, and participants were asked to say which letter was on that spot.

Gamers consistently outplayed non-gamers, despite varying delay between the letter flash and the arrow appearing. The longer they play games, the better they are at this.

“They need less information to arrive at a probabilistic conclusion, and they do it faster.”

Researchers suggested three possible reasons why this is happening – either they actually improved their vision, or they improved their visual memory, or they improved the reaction time of their decision making.

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