Study Shows Action Video Games Improve Vision

[Dyre Straits]

"Video games with lots of action, such as the shoot-'em-up variety, can improve your vision, a new study finds.

Players became up to 58 percent better at perceiving fine contrast differences in the tests.

"If you are driving at dusk with light fog it could make the difference between seeing the car in front of you or not seeing it," study leader Daphne Bavelier told LiveScience.

The ability to discern slight differences in shades of gray, or contrast sensitivity, is the primary limiting factor in how well one sees, said Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.

"Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means getting glasses or eye surgery-somehow changing the optics of the eye," she said. "But we've found that action video games train the brain to process the existing visual information more efficiently, and the improvements last for months after game play stopped." "

The rest of the article is here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...vevision/print

[buckshot23]

Well, I better get training!

[ThirdEye]

No wonder.

[pika]

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

"If you are driving at dusk with light fog it could make the difference between seeing the car in front of you or not seeing it," study leader Daphne Bavelier told LiveScience.

I had to put on eye glasses because sitting too long in front of the pc playing video games f*cked up my vision. And then i changed them because my vision got worse as i continued to play video games.

So when you find yourself in such situation (in the quote) were you are "more" perceptive, it wouldn't do you any good when you don't have your glasses on.

[genci88]

Originally Posted by pika

I had to put on eye glasses because sitting too long in front of the pc playing video games f*cked up my vision. And then i changed them because my vision got worse as i continued to play video games.

So when you find yourself in such situation (in the quote) were you are "more" perceptive, it wouldn't do you any good when you don't have your glasses on.

I have used computers non stop for 10+ years, and I don't need glasses. And when I say non-stop, I mean I mean non-stop (I stare at computers at work, at school, at home for entertainment, at home for studying, and while taking a crap to make the process less boring).

[Hatecrime69]

Originally Posted by genci88

I have used computers non stop for 10+ years, and I don't need glasses. And when I say non-stop, I mean I mean non-stop (I stare at computers at work, at school, at home for entertainment, at home for studying, and while taking a crap to make the process less boring).

So would that be an ePoo or an iPoo?

Not surprising really, training yourself to tell certain objects from others quickly is a simple thing to translate into any other suitation