Why do men have to conquer the X-Box?
May 27th 2008 13:41
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From Mailonline
When a chap picks up a games console he turns into a caveman.
Playing, and particularly winning, most high-tech games activates parts of the male brain which are linked to the primitive desire to conquer, say scientists.
And that is why men tend to become more obsessed than women with the latest release for the Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360.
Three structures within the reward circuit - the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex - were also shown to influence each other much more in men than in women, the scientists wrote in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. (As well as the mesocorticolimbic centre, the region typically associated with reward and addiction.)
And the better connected this circuit was, the better males performed in the game.
Dr Reiss added: 'These gender differences might help explain why males are more attracted to, and more likely to become "hooked" on, video games than females.
'I think it's fair to say that males tend to be more intrinsically territorial. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species.'
Dr Reiss, of Stanford University in California, said the research also suggested males are more likely to feel rewarded by computer games.
So there's the Science of Gaming for you.
But meanwhile, just have fun as I know those brain areas will frighten some of you to death.
But all you need to comprehend really is that these differences and the consequences explain men and gaming.
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