Tom Chatfield 7 ways games reward the brain

So, we got games like Brain Age coming out for the Nintendo DS, huge hit.

After two weeks of training on action video games, they actually perform better, and the improvement is still there five months after having done the training.

So in the same way that we actually see the effects of video games on people's behavior, we can use brain imaging and look at the impact of video games on the brain, and we do find many changes, but the main changes are actually to the brain networks that control attention.

Training

The training center has about 100 training programs.

Ear training

Brain Party

Card games

I'm a brain scientist, and as a brain scientist,

Training for Stability

Tom needs training.

You're more complicated than your brain. You've got a brain.

What we do in the lab is actually measure directly, in a quantitative fashion, what is the impact of video games on the brain.

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The Social Brain

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Recently played games

Play MSX games

Play SLUDGE games

Bread and games.

Tom likes games.

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They played games.

Don't play games.

Don't play games.

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Now, when we do brain imaging, we find that all three of these networks are actually much more efficient in people that play action games.

Information exchange and training

Training and technical cooperation

Training and technical assistance

I'm still training them.

He's training his dog.

She's training her dog.

The centre is inundated with video games, billiards, ping pong tables, foosball and air hockey tables, and some odd equipment that looks like video training simulators.