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Video Gaming Can Increase Brain Size and Connectivity
Neuroscientists find that video gaming can have therapeutic cognitive benefits.
Published on October 31, 2013 by Christopher Bergland in The Athlete's Way
Interesting study that showed “Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity improvements were observed in the right hippocampus, right prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum” whiles playing video game, although the games we are designing are much more closely related to a “physical play and board games” essentially they both stimulate the same part of the brain allowing an improvement in children’s cognitive abilities. “Study on the effects of video gaming in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder” are also mentioned in the article. Again our games can really allow people to release stress even more effective than video games by incorporating physical activity. A personas I thought of could involve very stressed out teen to university students around the age where stress tends to easily build up, and what is there better to release them other than playing some interesting and innovative games.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201310/video-gaming-can-increase-brain-size-and-connectivity
Gaming improves multitasking skills
Study reveals plasticity in age-related cognitive decline.
Alison Abbott, 04 September 2013
This article targets as older age group mainly elderly being engaged in video games, again games in general from board games to sports could trigger the same function in the brain.
Interesting finding includes these following results:
“Gazzaley and his colleagues first recruited around 30 participants for each of six decades of life, from the 20s to the 70s, and confirmed that multitasking skills as measured by the game deteriorated linearly with age. They then recruited 46 participants aged 60–85 and put them through a 4-week training period with a version of NeuroRacer that increased in difficulty as the player
Neuroscientists find that video gaming can have therapeutic cognitive benefits.
Published on October 31, 2013 by Christopher Bergland in The Athlete's Way
Interesting study that showed “Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity improvements were observed in the right hippocampus, right prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum” whiles playing video game, although the games we are designing are much more closely related to a “physical play and board games” essentially they both stimulate the same part of the brain allowing an improvement in children’s cognitive abilities. “Study on the effects of video gaming in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder” are also mentioned in the article. Again our games can really allow people to release stress even more effective than video games by incorporating physical activity. A personas I thought of could involve very stressed out teen to university students around the age where stress tends to easily build up, and what is there better to release them other than playing some interesting and innovative games.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201310/video-gaming-can-increase-brain-size-and-connectivity
Gaming improves multitasking skills
Study reveals plasticity in age-related cognitive decline.
Alison Abbott, 04 September 2013
This article targets as older age group mainly elderly being engaged in video games, again games in general from board games to sports could trigger the same function in the brain.
Interesting finding includes these following results:
“Gazzaley and his colleagues first recruited around 30 participants for each of six decades of life, from the 20s to the 70s, and confirmed that multitasking skills as measured by the game deteriorated linearly with age. They then recruited 46 participants aged 60–85 and put them through a 4-week training period with a version of NeuroRacer that increased in difficulty as the player