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    Playing Video Games Enhances Decision-Making

    Hi,

    Here is an interesting excerpt i found

    Don't tell that guy blasting rampaging zombies to smithereens in his favorite video game that he's getting lessons in efficient decision making.

    Wait until he's done to deliver this buzz kill: Playing shoot-'em-up, action-packed video games strengthens a person's ability to translate sensory information quickly into accurate decisions. This effect applies to both sexes, say psychologist Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester in New York and her colleagues, even if females generally shun video games with titles such as Dead Rising and Counter-Strike.

    Action-game players get tutored in detecting a range of visual and acoustic evidence that supports increasingly speedy decisions with no loss of precision, the scientists report in the Sept. 14 Current Biology. Researchers call this skill probabilistic inference.

    ""What's surprising in our study is that action games improved probabilistic inference not just for the act of gaming, but for unrelated and rather dull tasks,"" Bavelier says.

    Cheers
    Sam

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    Re: Playing Video Games Enhances Decision-Making

    Unlike the sluggish paced games that have troubles with precise solutions, the action game in motion a quick fire sequence of random threats and disputes to players. Those who receive a lot of practice, for example, kill a zombie attack in a random direction movement, post-apocalyptic landscape of the powers of the pump of probabilistic inference, Bavelier proposes. There is still much to learn, however, about whether and to what extent aid video enhancements led to think of other skills, the ability of pilots to land the plane in difficult conditions.

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