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The debate regarding whether video games are good or bad for us has been going on since Pong and Space Invaders days.Unfortunately , most people have always taken for granted that they were the cause of many mental and physical problems. Even if empirical proof was missing to support this. Some say that finding something to blame when there is a problem is in our human nature and video games have always been an easy target. But things have changed and there is now more professional research to find out the facts.

Video Games May Slow Down Aging. Male , female, young adult, middle-aged person – all have one thing in common and that's getting older. And though growing older and wiser has its benefits, there are also a variety of common issues that often come up. There is a reason you see senior citizens drive at 25 MPH despite the speed limit being 45. Just just as keeping a daily workout routine will make your body feel 50 when you're 60, so you will keep our brain 'in shape' too. In reality, a research study at the University of Iowa has shown that playing games can do just that.

Games Can Enhance Your Ability To Learn Male , female, young adult, middle-aged person – all have one thing in common and that's getting older. And though growing older and wiser has its benefits, there are also a variety of common issues that often come up. There is a reason you see senior citizens drive at 25 MPH despite the speed limit being 45. Just just as keeping a daily workout routine will make your body feel 50 when you're 60, so you will keep our brain 'in shape' too. In reality, a research study at the University of Iowa has shown that playing games can do just that.

Games Can Enhance Your Ability To Learn. Unlike popular belief that video games make you bad at school, UK researchers have found that some video games can actually improve our brain flexibility. The research was done at both London University College and Queen Mary University, which had 72 people playing two separate games for six to eight weeks for 40 hours. The games were a fast real-time strategy game called Starcraft, and a slower life-simulation game, The Sims. In other words, as the game needs continuous thought and player feedback, the people who played Starcraft boasted greater cognitive versatility. So while slower games may not give the same benefit, it's nice to know that our favorite fast-paced games help us to become better learners while being fun.

Improved Focus and AttentionOne of the major concerns among parents today is that their children are sitting in class thinking about Minecraft and Pokemon rather than listening to the teacher. A researcher named Vikranth Bejjanki performed a few experiments alongside several colleagues to see if games instead helped kids pay more attention by improving cognition and perception. These tests involved first having two groups, experienced and inexperienced gamers, performing multiple perceptual tasks such as pattern discrimination. The gamers ended up outperforming the other community that had played games rarely, if ever, before the experiment.