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Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging
Ant wrote to mention a Globe and Mail article stating that videogames keep the mind young and help in quick focusing on different tasks. "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."
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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 tas--
Yeah, whatever. Dude!! Check out this score! w00t!
Now.. what were you saying?
Plenty of complaints about immature guys have been heard over the years.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
I'm bilingual (2 1/4 to be correct) gamer, so $subj :-)
My other Beowulf cluster is... er...
I knew I should keep playing video games all night instead of studying...I'm keeping myself alive longer, so I can study more!
Now this study comes out...my whole life friends, family, and significant others thought I suffered from ADHD when really I'm just...
Civilization, the death of dreams.
i playd vidoe games all way thru hi scooll, and i faled a lota clases, and my parents kiked me out of home, but now even in my old age of 32 i feel yung @ haeart. so... i think they r ryte.. i thank vid. games for ervrything i have.. my gf i met on hallo xbox online, my dog (but ive been layuing lots of vid. games lately and i dont know hwhere he is), and my fun job @ teh bowling allie.
long liv vid. gamnes!@ keeping us yung 4 ever!
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To stay young, play:
Halo: El Combate Ha Evolucionado
d00d, thatz soooo ghey, OMG!
Wow.. that might be the highest amount of stereotypes I've seen in one sentence in my entire life.
most Europeans speak 2 or 3 languages... and yes, they consider Americans stupid.
I'm trilingual and it's even worse for me. I call for a recount. It's just so surprising to me that--
Oooh, a bird!
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I already tested the Alzheimer's idea at my local nursing home. I put half the residents on a regime of Tetris, and half on Grand Theft Auto. The tetris players showed a marked improvement in cognitive skills, right up to the point when the GTA players jacked their wheelchairs, shot them for their money and took their meds to sell.
This must be why my wife says I always act like an 8 year old..
I think there is a old people in Korea joke in there somewhere.
Someone recently referred to raid healing in WoW as "health-bar whack-a-mole". You spend several hours staring intently at one small section of your screen, clicking a mouse button in response to changing colours. and they wonder why healers go a little crazy with the DPS occasionally.
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World