Belle Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 503 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 181 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2461 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 1213 Achievement Points: 15555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 7 Device: Windows Share Posted May 27, 2010 I knew it!! (at least read the last couple of lines) May 26, 2010 A new study from the East Carolina University Psychophysiology Department shows cognitive responsiveness increases after casual gaming. Video games are good for you and can make you smarter! It is now a proven fact. Or at least one study seems to think so. A six-month-long study that focused on U.S. consumers age 50 and older shows a link between casual gaming and significant cognitive increase. According to a press releases sent out by Pop Cap Games, makers of the games Bejeweled and Peggle among others, the study focused on over 40 individuals as they played casual games, such as Bejeweled. Pop Cap Games did not underwrite the study. The study measured the brain waves of the subjects before and after playing casual games. Subjects that played games like Bejeweled for a 30-minute period showed an 87 percent improvement in cognitive response time, and a 215 percent increase in executive functioning (the frequency of correctly completing parts of the task) compared to the control group. The Director of the Psychophysiology department, Dr. Carmen Russoniello, will present the preliminary result to the sixth annual Games for Health Conference in Boston. The full study results will be submitted later this fall. “The initial results of the study are very intriguing, in that they suggest that the ‘active participation’ required while playing a casual video game like Bejeweled provides an opportunity for mental exercise that more passive activities, like watching television, do not,” Russoniello said. “Future applications could include prescriptive applications using casual video games to potentially stave off Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-type disorders.” And as awesome as cheating Alzheimer’s through video games might sound, it might not just be the casual gamers that may reap the benefits either. “Video games with more complex rules and controls, and more sophisticated or detailed imagery — so-called ‘hardcore’ video games — might provide similar cognitive benefits for many people,” Russoniello said in the press release. “But those games take significantly longer to learn to play and appeal to a considerably narrower subset of the overall population, especially older consumers. In our experience, ‘casual’ video games are ideal both in terms of their accessibility and ease of understanding and because they appeal to nearly everyone.” Therefore, logically hardcore gamers will soon be the smartest people alive, and we will live longer than anyone else either- assuming the intense online matches of Modern Warfare don’t cause us to have a heart attacks, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.93 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 03:05 PM Device: Windows Share Posted May 27, 2010 Wow there is still a chance foe me yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackOp8 Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 1440 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 23 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 588 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 3170 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/23/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/18/1986 Share Posted May 27, 2010 So thats why I'm smarter than all my friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGTDANKO Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 3214 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 27 Topic Count: 206 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2362 Content Per Day: 0.53 Reputation: 50 Achievement Points: 14004 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/21/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/23/1981 Share Posted May 27, 2010 im still an idiot lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greywolf2 Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 35 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 44 Topic Count: 345 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4812 Content Per Day: 0.90 Reputation: 420 Achievement Points: 28063 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Sonovabich Wow there is still a chance foe me yet There never was a chance for you SOB!!!!! Only thing you got going is you are a boobie post whore!!!!!!! Hey wait that sound fun!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostHunter Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 1370 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 18 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 149 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 37 Achievement Points: 1117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 10, 2014 Birthday: 07/12/1966 Share Posted May 27, 2010 GOOD NEWS! For all Monoto>xi<comans (and others) with View-Problems! Playing Shooter-Games, after another study, sharpens definitely your View. Because the player has to chase and survey the pixels, he's also more able to distinguish the colors. So...., before you buy new glasses...SHOOT like an IDIOT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDD THE DUCK Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 375 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 92 Topic Count: 385 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4065 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 7844 Achievement Points: 37160 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 45 Joined: 09/13/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10 Birthday: 06/01/1970 Device: iPhone Share Posted May 27, 2010 did they study ducks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.93 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 03:05 PM Device: Windows Share Posted May 27, 2010 Ooo a booby post whore....fame at last! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Posted May 27, 2010 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4444 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 2763 Achievement Points: 29399 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 11 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: iPhone Share Posted May 27, 2010 I are old.. and the COD4 makes I smarts!!!! (JohnnyDOS should be a friggen genius !!! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blackbart Posted May 28, 2010 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.11 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Share Posted May 28, 2010 It made me so smart that I already knew that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
LeoSlye Posted May 28, 2010 Member ID: 323 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 174 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1020 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/08/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2018 Birthday: 06/09/1952 Share Posted May 28, 2010 That's what I've been telling my wife for the last fifteen years that it's mental excersise. Makes one keen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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