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Today I want to talk about the video games and how they affect consciousness.
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For the long time it was thought that video games is just a useless waste of time. Now I can tell that is not true. Video games can boost the creativity and you really become smarter.
The experiment was carried out in one university.
The scientist tried to confirm or to deny the theory that brain of the adult can create new neural connections and/or to produce new cells.
To confirm his theory he developed a special test.
Firstly, he passed this tested himself. All the results were higher than a average. He passed this test twice.
The same results! Then he suggested his colleges to pass this test.
When they passed it they results were also higher than average. Scientist thought that there is something wrong in his test and he suggested passing it to his college from another university.
When she ended her results were average. It was really a surprise because her IQ test results were high. The scientist tried to figure it out why does it happening. After a little investigation he realized that all his friends were playing the same computer game – Team Fortress.
After this discovery he realized that, the next question rose. How can video games boost the cognitive abilities?
How the games where you kill zombies, monster or aliens help you think better?
What has begun as a result of search of a mistake in a test turned out into a huge research.
Now scientists know that different games can really cause a positive effect on our cognitive abilities.
Those who play an action games like Call of Duty or Gears of War boost they ability to focus on the certain things for example on the low contrast objects, mentally rotate objects and, of course, the multitasking.
Moreover, those how play action games also show a better reaction than those how doesn't play.
So, let's try to understand why does it happening.
First of all, people who are trying to kill zombies they need to focus on the object and to distract from others. So the better and the faster you focus the better you play.
The other thing that the more people play the faster they can process the information. When you play action games you must quickly understand if it is a friend or it is your enemy and to take some actions.
Faster reaction leads that brain process more visual, auditory or other information and it selects what is necessary and excludes the information that destructs.
Moreover, the better attention leads to better learning skills.
There is a question can other games can play boost you cognitive abilities.
