Video Games Improve Vision by 20 Percent
See, I'm not wasting my time, I'm improving my vision:
At the Daily Tech website, they reported on a study which showed that playing high action video games, such as a first person shooter, could improve a person's ability to identify letters presented in clutter by up to 20 percent, which is a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics.
In the test, one group was asked to play Tetris, and the other Unreal Tournament, for about an hour a day. Before the game playing began, the students were given a crowding test. The test measures how well they could discern the orientation of a “T” within a crowd of other distracting symbols—a sort of electronic eye chart.
After about a month of near-daily gaming, the Tetris players showed no improvement on the test, but the Unreal Tournament players could tell which way the “T” was pointing much more easily than they had just a month earlier.
The explanation? The scientists think that “when people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing,” says Bavelier. “These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life.”
You can read the whole article over at the Daily Tech site HERE.
(via Ministry of Tech)
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