PhysOrg - Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate
Researchers found18-25 year-olds who don't normally play video games for a study. One set was given fast-paced shooter-type games to play, including Call of Duty 2. The other group got a slow-moving "strategy" video game, The Sims. After 50 hours of game-play, both groups were given visual and auditory tasks that seem to be about separating information from noise and making "probabilistic inference": for instance, seeing a set of erratic dots move on a screen and having to judge if they were, on average, moving in a particular direction. Those who played the action-type video games made the judgments 25% faster and were no less accurate. Researchers speculate that quick-paced action video games (and, by extension, lives with lots of action in them) increase one's ability to take in bits of information and make rapid probabilistic inferences.
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