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Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging

Posted by Zonk on from the i-shall-live-forever! dept.

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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  1. Awesome by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you know what this means? The "Hot Coffee Scene" is good for you!

    1. Re:Awesome by Valdoran · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, hello Jack Thompson. Didn't know you had a /. account.

  2. No camping! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. Girlfriends Have Known This For Years by geoffrobinson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plenty of complaints about immature guys have been heard over the years.

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    Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
    1. Re:Girlfriends Have Known This For Years by jinxidoru · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, see there's the problem. Girlfriends WOULD have known this for years if well... you know... *sob* I am so lonely!

  4. I rule! by lastberserker · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm bilingual (2 1/4 to be correct) gamer, so $subj :-)

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    My other Beowulf cluster is... er...
    1. Re:I rule! by struppi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Let's see... Java, C++, German, English - makes 4

  5. Ahaaa! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I knew I should keep playing video games all night instead of studying...I'm keeping myself alive longer, so I can study more!

  6. the study i s ryte by Mancat · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. Moral of the story by prakslash · · Score: 3, Funny

    To stay young, play:

    Halo: El Combate Ha Evolucionado

  8. Europe vs US by toolslive · · Score: 4, Funny

    most Europeans speak 2 or 3 languages... and yes, they consider Americans stupid.

  9. Re:Correlation not Causation by damsa · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think there is a old people in Korea joke in there somewhere.