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Video Games Boost Visual Skills

Posted by simoniker on from the we-thought-it-was-the-caffeine dept.

cmburns69 writes "A new study published in Nature Magazine (MSNBC summary) suggests that playing action games improves visual skills. Among other things, young adults who played action games such as Grand Theft Auto and Medal of Honor regularly could track up to five objects at a time - 30% more than non-players. Apparently, the game type is important, as ten hours of the block-rotating game Tetris failed to improve test scores."

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  1. I've been wondering by bhsx · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've been slowly losing my vision and was wondering what was actually causing it. It's getting so bad I've had to set my fonts to 18 minimum. So I've been wondering if it's from streigning in front of a CRT for 10 hours at a time. Turns out I just needed to clean my screen from all the pr0n juice.
    budumdum.

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