Study: Games can have a good impact on you!

For those who feel bad with playing video games will do you no good, at least here are couple studies that give a positive impact on you. 
First of all, according to the study conducted by Dr. Silvia Bunge, a neuroscientist at UC Berkley, some video games help enhance kids' reasoning and processing skills.
Dr Bunge and his team did their research at Oklahoma elementary school where the kids has an average IQ of 90. They selected games that require a specific mental function, such as: Big Brain Academy, Picross.
The kids all have 75 minutes session every week for eight weeks. After that, the kids tested. And the result? The reasoning skill improves by 32% and gained a positive 13 point IQ. The average IQ raise for a year in school is 12 points. Well, games like hack and slash Dynasty Warrior could still give you no benefit to your IQ, but at least not all games are bad.



Other studies show that gaming can give affects for doing a task. 
Rolf Nelson, a Wheaton College psychology professor, done and release a result of a study that is associated with video games. People who play action games most probably, if given a task, get it done faster at the expense of accuracy. On the other hand, people who play strategy games most likely yield more accuracy in the job but longer time. 
Prof Nelson make use of Unreal Tournament games and Portal for puzzle solving strategy games. The subject asked to play the game for an hour between two tasks. "If they’re playing an action game and then switch to homework, they may try to blaze through their homework at the cost of making mistakes." Prof Nelson said. 


This is interesting, it could be more associated with adrenaline rush? Maybe after playing action game, your nerves and reflex is more tense than playing strategy puzzle so you just rush everything with a little of thinking? 
Who knows, anyway this could be an excuse for you to not doing your homework after playing Uncharted 2! 


Source: Qj.net

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