How do video games make you smart?
May 12th 2008 22:50
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There are video games that are actually built on logic and reasoning, and involve complex problem solving that you can think about even when you've left the computer screen.
Take Tetris. It takes some degree of analysis and quick thinking to assess the shape of the pieces dropping from the top of the screen and deciding where to put it. The game speeds up periodically, and the pile of blocks grows with every mistake you make, until you reach a point when one wrong move can kill your chances of breaking the world record and your brain starts working pretty fast. Faster, in fact, than you would normally use it in the course of the day.
And then there are the memory games. Studies show that memory is a skill: the ability to organize information in your brain, and then retrieve it through a series of memory-triggers.
Yes, relaxing.You're doing something you love and getting smarter at the same time. Not a bad way to spend a 20 minute break between meetings.
And then there are the strategy games.Building cities and villages and a space station on Mars.
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