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Bavelier had previously shown that playing action video games increased players’ ability to detect objects in a cluttered space. In the new study, published in Nature Neuroscience, her team tested the contrast sensitivity of a group of people who regularly played action video games, such as Unreal Tournament and Call of Duty, where the player has to shoot at virtual targets. They found the group’s ability to detect different shades of gray was 58 per cent better on average than people who had not played the games. Those who were not regular game players were then put through a training regime involving hours of console gaming. When they had completed the course, their contrast sensitivity had improved by 43 per cent on average.
Edited, Dec 18th 2009 1:11pm by catwho