Eating Fruits And Vegetables - And Play Video Games

     The ongoing struggle of "good games", "games are bad" war plays on a recent article in Discover magazine, which examines the growing body of research suggests that video games exercise the mind like in the manner of physical activity exercises the body.

     Laparoscopic surgery, also known as keyhole surgery or surgery to patch is to manipulate the control / joystick to control a fiber optic camera and surgical instruments to perform minimally invasive surgery with only a small incision in the body of the person. Laparoscopic surgery has existed for many years now, but doctors have only recently begun to feel a correlation between the surgeons, shaking up and video game players.

     Surgeon Butch Rosser, a library of minimally invasive surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, read a journalist to comment on one of the procedures referred to him as a "Nintendo surgeon." This started his thought that perhaps his gift apparent in many of his contemporaries because he was a player.

     Rosser set out to see if there was a connection using a standard laparoscopic drill called "Top Gun" to test laparoscopic surgeons who have never played a computer game, and those players. "The results were truly amazing," he said. "First of all, if you played video games [any time] in the past, it was found that you were much quicker and more importantly, you created fewer errors than those who n 'had no previous gaming experience. So when we looked at whether you are a current video player, we found that if you played video games at the moment, you were more than 30 percent better - faster and makes fewer errors than -. someone who does not play video games at all "

     Alan Castel [% http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/ 7Eacastel /], professor of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis [http://www.wustl.edu/] performed another study in which people from different groups are a number of standard tests visual search for a particular object (eg a letter) among a group of other objects on a computer screen. "The players had video response time faster in the order of 100 milliseconds, which may not seem like much, but in this area is quite a good result," said Castel. "And you can imagine, when you run a difference of 100 milliseconds can really help you avoid accidents."

     Research has shown that players used search patterns as non-gamer ", but the video game players were faster and more efficiently when they are conducting this research," said Castel.

     "Previous research has shown that video game players have a greater attention span and can perform search functions more effective ways," says Castel. "Our research has focused on examining whether there were differences in the way video game players and the players non-video search the visual environment in which they carry out visual search. We were interested in whether video game players had to perform a visual search in a different way compared to people who do not play video games. "

     Castle suggests that not only are video games good "practice" for many activities around the mental activities such as training of military flight and surgery, but can also be a good tool for the rehabilitation of people recovering from brain injury.

     Mental improvement in video games is clearly there. Rosser, however, stressed that the surgeons to work better with only three hours of play per week. Kids Rosser goes on to say "that Butch Rosser would not be here in this capacity, if he was playing video games and had good grades, did not develop perseverance. And I would say that a child out there who thinks they got a free ticket to play video games white paper, I say, "Nooo, sadly mistaken."

     With speeches by politicians of today, trying to "air time" to ban video games, to impose regulations beyond entertainment media such as books or movies, and "cons" of video games, the work of organizations like the International Game Developers Association, which advocates a more balanced and fair in the games, is more necessary than ever. Research has demonstrated the positive effects of video games and has shown very mixed results in negative effects.