Cognitive Benefits of Gaming

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 12, 2006 @07:39AM from the play-and-learn-kid dept.

Next Generation reports on an upcoming study to be conducted by PopCap games and the Games for Health Project. The two groups will be collaborating to discover what effect, if any, gaming has on keeping minds sharp. From the article: "The results of the study, which should be available in Spring of this year, are expected to reveal the role that digital games play in keeping minds sharp, especially those of the aging. The study will not focus on the benefits of any specific game, as the overall goal is to summarize past and present research. Expert opinions or public opinion may be gathered as well."

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Getting the results they want by Roj+Blake · 2006-01-12 07:49 · Score: 1, Interesting

I'm not trying to flame here, but this appears to be a group conducting a 'study' to get the results they want. If this were a Seattle based organization I suspect the /. response would be quite negative.

And just to show I'm not an anti-gamer I loved the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight/Jedi Academy series, the Thief series and am currently playing Age of Empires 3.

I'm just saying I don't like studies where the entire purpose is to get a pre-determined result.

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