I came across a post on Slasddot today that states what I've believed for years...or at least I started thinking once I hit 30 (9 years ago)...that playing video games keeps the mind young. My gaming days date back to the Pong days, then Odyssey video game console, Atari and...My Grandparents bought a Collecovision game console. This is when I experienced sports video games for the firs t time. I was hooked and have been ever since. I've owned all the various game consoles over the years and our game system of choice is the Xbox, until PlayStation 3 arrives and we can truly review it against the Xbox 360 and decide which console is for us. EA Sports is my friend!
Anyway, here's a piece of the article written for globeandmail.com:
When he snags downtime from his schoolwork, Ryerson University student Brad Evans gabs with friends, grooves to Kanye West on his MP3 player and races virtual hotrods on his Sony PlayStation. All at the same time.
Before you assume gadgets and video games fry the minds of the future, consider this: Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging.
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.
Full Story - Better living through video games?
[Via Slashdot & globandmail.com]
