More evidence that playing games, stratigy games, can be good for your brain (Berman Post: Video Games/Facebook Make You Smarter, Twitter/YouTube Make You Dumber?). This time it is Tetris.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561043,00.html
"Researchers have found regular playing of the game can improve complex planning skills, critical thinking, reasoning and language. Tetris requires players to think quickly by slotting various-sized cascading blocks into homogenous shapes on the screen.
The study is one of the first to use MRI scanning technology to investigate the effects of game-playing on the brain."
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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