You Must have heard from your parents, teachers, friends or perhaps someone else that playing games rots your brain. It reduces concentration, focus, state of awareness and thinking capability. But is it really the case, or is it just some rumor spread due to fiction? Well, keep on reading, as we have tons of surprises on the way. Let's start exploring!
Well, it turns out that playing games actually increase your mind power.
"Certain types of video games can help to train the brain to become more agile and improve strategic thinking, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL)." as stated in Queen Mary University Of London(QMUL).
Dr Brian Glass from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, said: "Research has demonstrated that action video games, such as Halo, can speed up decision making but the current work finds that real-time strategy games can promote our ability to think on the fly and learn from past mistakes."
Professor Brad Love from UCL, said: "Cognitive flexibility varies across people and at different ages. For example, a fictional character like Sherlock Holmes has the ability to simultaneously engage in multiple aspects of thought and mentally shift in response to changing goals and environmental conditions."
Dr Glass added: "The volunteers who played the most complex version of the video game performed the best in the post-game psychological tests. We need to understand now what exactly about these games is leading to these changes, and whether these cognitive boosts are permanent or if they dwindle over time. Once we have that understanding, it could become possible to develop clinical interventions for symptoms related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or traumatic brain injuries, for example."
All Credit to the information in this page goes to Queen Mary University Of London(QMUL).
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