Comments on: Study: Reaction Times Lowered Via Video Games

By: Quora

Quora — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:10:50 +0000

Why has there been a steady rise in average IQ scores in the US over the last 30 years or so? Is this really representative of an actual increase in intelligence?…

The Flynn Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Generally_more_stimulating_environment), which is attributed to several factors * Schooling/test familiarity. Schooling isn’t particularly likely to explain the average rise though, given tha…

By: TheMonkeyz

TheMonkeyz — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:27:20 +0000

Driving games do help a lot. I’ve driven cars about 3 times in my life. The first time was just a slow ride and was easy. The second was with and automatic Ford Eclipse in a parking with 5-6 inches of snow. The car did exactly what I wanted even tough I’ve only practiced this on my computer before. The third time was in a manual pickup truck on wet grass, I managed to drift perfectly around a barrel; I felt it was exactly like what I was doing in the simulation game “Live for Speed”.

So I don’t have scientific proof that driving games improve real-life driving, but I can say it worked for me. Maybe the bicycling in the snow for all theses year helped too.

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Action games “improve visual attention” — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:36:08 +0000

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By: John Rice

John Rice — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:19:09 +0000

@ George – Video games are used for training air traffic controllers and keeping their reflexes sharp. It’s thought driving games might help teen and elderly drivers, too.

By: George

George — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:58:41 +0000

“Video gaming may therefore provide an efficient training regimen to induce a general speeding of perceptual reaction times without decreases in accuracy of performance.” As interesting as that sounds, I don’t believe many people will take something like that seriously enough to put it to work.

Maybe in the near future, but likely not now.

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