Forget Carrots, Just Play Video Games
03/29/09
An L.A. Times blog post summarizes a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience.
“People who played 50 hours of action video games showed significant improvement in contrast sensitivity function, a key aspect of vision.
“The researchers measured each player’s contrast sensitivity function before and after their training and found that people assigned to the shoot-'em-up games improved by an average of 58%. Those who played the Sims improved too, but not as much as those who played the action games, according to the study. The benefits lasted for months and even years.”