Crazy Taxi Helps Brain Cell Research

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday September 10, 2003 @08:02PM from the time-to-make-some-crazy-findings dept.

Thanks to Betterhumans.com for their story regarding research using videogames to explore brain cells and navigation. According to the piece: "Understanding of how brain cells interact to help people navigate has been furthered by an experiment using epileptic patients who drove a virtual taxi while attached to an EEG monitor." While watching players of the game, which was presumably Crazy Taxi: "The researchers identified three distinct brain cells that helped the players navigate: Place cells [determining location], view cells [what was being seen in the environmen], and goal cells [involved in finding a location, person or thing]."

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oh rikku by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-10 20:04 · Score: -1, Troll

where art thou
1. Re:oh rikku by FattyLumpkin · 2003-09-10 20:56 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Fried attached ppls to EEG machines and made them play video games.
  
  the magnitude of funny'ness is determined by how he pronounces his name.