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Daphne Bavelier
Scientist
Action
Brain
Good
Time
Video Games
You
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In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the better the performance. And now we know playing action video game actually fosters better templates.
Daphne Bavelier
Game
World
Better
Build
Action
Our
Constantly
Performance
Sharpen
Know
Brains
Models
Order
Prediction
Video
Video Game
Skills
Fosters
Now
Actually
Playing
'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of screen time will all have to do with which activities you engage into.
Daphne Bavelier
Time
Good
You
Ugly
Will
Matters
Bad
Faces
Screen
Which
While
Meaningless
Engage
Activities
The average age of a gamer is 33 years old, not eight years old, and in fact, if we look at the projected demographics of video game play, the video game players of tomorrow are older adults.
Daphne Bavelier
Game
Age
Gamer
Old
Tomorrow
Older
Projected
Fact
Adult
Look
Demographics
Years
Eight
In Fact
Video
Video Game
Average
Play
Players
You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention.
Daphne Bavelier
You
Perception
Action
Totally
Attention
Effect
Effects
Different
Aspects
Games
Compare
Cognition
Playing
We need to go beyond saying, 'I know what these games do because I see my son playing them,' and try to understand the complexities - that different video games have different effects.
Daphne Bavelier
Video Games
Saying
Son
Try
Complexities
See
Beyond
Know
Because
Understand
Go
Effects
Different
Them
Video
Games
Playing
Need
Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.
Daphne Bavelier
Time
You
Game
Surgeon
Action
Correct
Battlefield
All The Difference
Per
More
Make
Difference
Middle
Decisions
Unit
Players
We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain's allocation of resources.
Daphne Bavelier
Focus
Resources
Ability
Data
Allocation
Make
Brain
Hand
Task
Improves
Decisions
Your
Games
Gaming
Large
Shows
Fast-Paced
Amount
Playing
Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.
Daphne Bavelier
Memory
Speeds
Despite
Studies
Puzzle
Reaction
Brain
Effect
Improving
Often
Being
Little
Social
Games
Shown
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