Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging

Ant wrote to mention a Globe and Mail article stating that videogames keep the mind young and help in quick focusing on different tasks. "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. 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."

Awesome

[MillionthMonkey]

Do you know what this means? The "Hot Coffee Scene" is good for you!

No camping!

[Anonymous Coward]

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 tas--

Yeah, whatever. Dude!! Check out this score! w00t!

Now.. what were you saying?

Girlfriends Have Known This For Years

[geoffrobinson]

Plenty of complaints about immature guys have been heard over the years.

Re:Awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

And this also explains why all those English speaking Asian gamers were so much better than me! Time to learn another language...

I rule!

[lastberserker]

I'm bilingual (2 1/4 to be correct) gamer, so $subj :-)

Ahaaa!

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew I should keep playing video games all night instead of studying...I'm keeping myself alive longer, so I can study more!

And my whole life...

[xgadflyx]

Now this study comes out...my whole life friends, family, and significant others thought I suffered from ADHD when really I'm just...

the study i s ryte

[Mancat]

i playd vidoe games all way thru hi scooll, and i faled a lota clases, and my parents kiked me out of home, but now even in my old age of 32 i feel yung @ haeart. so... i think they r ryte.. i thank vid. games for ervrything i have.. my gf i met on hallo xbox online, my dog (but ive been layuing lots of vid. games lately and i dont know hwhere he is), and my fun job @ teh bowling allie.

long liv vid. gamnes!@ keeping us yung 4 ever!

Moral of the story

[prakslash]

To stay young, play:

Halo: El Combate Ha Evolucionado

Re:It's True

[Anonymous Coward]

d00d, thatz soooo ghey, OMG!

Re:Correlation not Causation

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow.. that might be the highest amount of stereotypes I've seen in one sentence in my entire life.

Europe vs US

[toolslive]

most Europeans speak 2 or 3 languages... and yes, they consider Americans stupid.

Re:Awesome

[Valdoran]

Oh, hello Jack Thompson. Didn't know you had a /. account.

Re:I rule!

[struppi]

Let's see... Java, C++, German, English - makes 4

Re:Girlfriends Have Known This For Years

[jinxidoru]

No, see there's the problem. Girlfriends WOULD have known this for years if well... you know... *sob* I am so lonely!

Re:wish it worked for me.

[The-Bus]

I'm trilingual and it's even worse for me. I call for a recount. It's just so surprising to me that--

Oooh, a bird!

Re:The Medical Breakthrough of the Century -

[Winlin]

I already tested the Alzheimer's idea at my local nursing home. I put half the residents on a regime of Tetris, and half on Grand Theft Auto. The tetris players showed a marked improvement in cognitive skills, right up to the point when the GTA players jacked their wheelchairs, shot them for their money and took their meds to sell.

Videogaming keeps the brain young?

[fdrake76]

This must be why my wife says I always act like an 8 year old..

Re:Correlation not Causation

[damsa]

I think there is a old people in Korea joke in there somewhere.

Re:Europe vs US

[stonecypher]

and yes, they consider Americans stupid.

Don't worry, it's mutual.

Re:I rule!

[Millenniumman]

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("You don't speak in computer language? What are you doing on Slashdot?");

    return 0;
}

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Extreme Single Tasking

[Macgrrl]

Someone recently referred to raid healing in WoW as "health-bar whack-a-mole". You spend several hours staring intently at one small section of your screen, clicking a mouse button in response to changing colours. and they wonder why healers go a little crazy with the DPS occasionally.

Re:No camping!

[ClamIAm]

Dude, just because you "speak" CS and WoW doesn't mean you can just go and inflate your numbers like that. That's totally unfair. (joke, haha)