Games are good for you

Interesting link to a study on the effects of computer games :).

Games are good for you: "

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.

Barely a day goes by when video games, generally Grand Theft Auto, are blamed for something evil. But that doesn’t mean they are bad. I have my own views on the whole ‘video games are murder simulators’ debate, and maybe I’ll write them up one day. For now though - I’ll focus on the positive.

Researchers in Toronto have found that people who played video games are able to concentrate better, and excel at multi tasking.

Prof. Bialystok suspects video gamers, like bilinguals, have a practised ability to block out information that is irrelevant to the task at hand.

You can read more in the article on the Globe and Mail website.

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(Via Binary Moon.)