heather mclean

Someone posted this yesterday on our local homeschool
email list. from the New York Times -

Video-Game Killing Builds Visual Skills, Researchers
Report

By SANDRA BLAKESLEE


And now, the news that every parent dreads.
Researchers are reporting today that
first-person-shooter video games � the kind that
require players to kill or maim enemies or monsters
that pop out of nowhere � sharply improve visual
attention skills.

Experienced players of these games are 30 percent to
50 percent better than nonplayers at taking in
everything that happens around them, according to the
research, which appears today in the journal Nature.
They identify objects in their peripheral vision,
perceiving numerous objects without having to count
them, switch attention rapidly and track many items at
once....

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/science/29VIDE.html

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