Video games do give the effect of the two sides of a coin, the negative and positive in it. No one can deny that video games are able to train language skills, fine motor, even eye-hand coordination skills are better. But it turns out studies have shown that the positive effects of video games not only on the ability to look outside. Video games give gamers something more.
The experts who often do research on the effects of video games themselves admit that video games do improve eye-hand coordination. Habits of gamers who look constantly to the television screen while his hands continue to move press the button on the controller while playing the game is believed to cause an increase in that ability.
To explain what is actually happening inside the body of the gamers so that an increase in coordination ability was apparent, the researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at York University in Canada trying to find the cause. And no half-hearted, they did research for many years.
They make two groups of subjects, each of which contains 13 people who became the study sample. One group was asked to play the game at least four hours a week for the last three years, while another group does not play games. Each sample of 26 men (two groups) are then asked to enter into the machine fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine) and asked to solve problems visualmotor quite difficult.
Lauren Sergio, associate professor of Faculty of Health at York University explains that the fMRI machine, the researchers can see which parts of the brain are active when the visual-motor task this difficult. All this is done to see how the skills gained from the experience of playing video games can be adapted in a different task. So what are the results?
Surprisingly, the study found that the sample group that does NOT play games showed more brain activity in the parietal cortex, the part of the brain associated with eye-hand coordination. While the IS group of experienced gaming, showed increased brain activity in the prefrontal cortex, located in the forebrain.
The bottom line? It turns out that gamers brain is the brain that special! By continuing task visual-motor gets from playing the game, gamers brain activity changes the way the brain manages visual motor, different from the ordinary brain. And of course, helps produce visual-motor coordination is more leverage.
This research brings new hope to sufferers of Alzheimer’s are often difficult to carry out its functions visual-motorist. If playing the game became one of the promising therapies, why not?
