{"id":722,"date":"2003-06-03T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:50","slug":"is-gaming-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"is gaming good for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those wasted hours, days, weeks playing Tomb  Raider and Grand Theft Auto may not be wasted after all. Sure, video  games may make you more sedentary and perhaps even more violent, but at  least they&#8217;ve improved your visual skills. C. Shawn Green and Daphne  Bavelier of the University of Rochester report in the May 29 <em>Nature<\/em> that  people who played action-packed video games several times a week for at  least six months beat nonplayers in lab vision tests. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gamers reacted to fast-moving objects more efficiently, processed more  information more quickly, and could keep track of more objects at the  same time than nongamers. The researchers also found that nongamers  could improve their visual skills by playing video games &#8212; as long as  they were action-packed. They had nongamers play the shoot-&#8217;em-up video  game, Medal of Honor, for an hour a day for 10 days in a row. A control  group played Tetris, a puzzle game that requires rotating one shape at a  time. But only the Medal-of-Honor group exhibited clearly improved  visual skills. The researchers think that by forcing players to  simultaneously juggle tasks such as detecting enemies, tracking enemies,  and avoid getting killed, action-game-playing pushes the limits of  visual attention. As the authors note: &#8220;Although video-game playing may  seem to be rather mindless, it is capable of radically altering visual  attention processing.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 6\/03\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wasted hours, days, weeks playing Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto may not be wasted after all. Sure, video games may make you more sedentary and perhaps even more violent, but at least they&#8217;ve improved your visual skills. C. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}