Older Gamers Get Cognitive Boost From Strategy Games
Listen up, boytoys and PYTs: your sugar daddy may get more out of playing games than you do. University of Illinois researchers have just wrapped up a study that attempted to stimulate cognitive function in adults over the age of 60. Turns out that a little RTS action significantly increased participants' brainpower:
"The tests included measures of their ability to switch between tasks, their short-term visual memory, their reasoning skills and their working memory, which is the ability to hold two or more pieces of information in memory and use the information as needed. There were also tests of the subjects' verbal recall, their ability to inhibit certain responses and their ability to identify an object that had been rotated to a greater or lesser degree from its original position. The researchers found that training on the video game did improve the participants' performance on a number of these tests. As a group, the gamers became significantly better -- and faster -- at switching between tasks compared with the comparison group. Their working memory, as reflected in the tests, also was significantly improved. Their reasoning ability was enhanced. To a lesser extent, their short-term memory of visual cues was better than that of their peers, as was their ability to identify rotated objects."
Better performance - better working memory and faster task-switching - these are all desirable traits in a sugar daddy. Also desirable in a sugar daddy: get that geezer hooked on C&C so you can go out and spend his money with your friends!
Or you could use your powers for good and get your older relatives into a brain-positive gaming routine. Your call.
Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults [Slashdot]
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Posted to Miscellany on 15 December 2008
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