Gamers and mental acuity
Via Boing Boing, This is an interesting article
It seems that the minds of gamers have the same advance acuity of those who are bi or multi lingual. Anyone ever wonder if web designers should be considered multi-lingual?
"Before you assume gadgets and video games fry the minds of the future, consider this: Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging.
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."
And all this time I thought that, to quiet the mind, was the way to long life.
Ok - less meditation, and more gaming - got it.
It seems that the minds of gamers have the same advance acuity of those who are bi or multi lingual. Anyone ever wonder if web designers should be considered multi-lingual?
"Before you assume gadgets and video games fry the minds of the future, consider this: Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging.
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."
And all this time I thought that, to quiet the mind, was the way to long life.
Ok - less meditation, and more gaming - got it.