In addition to improving decision-making, boosting creativity, and delaying dementia, video games have beneficial effects on organs in your body other than the brain. Specifically in these three:
Eyes.Gamers see the world in a different way. What’s more, they are able to extract more information from a visual scene than most of us, Greg Appelbaum and his colleagues at Duke University have found. To test it, they subjected a series of subjects to a few pvisual memory testsin which, for just a tenth of a second, a set of 8 letters arranged in a circular way appeared on a screen. A few moments later, an arrow was shown pointing to one of the points where a letter had previously been, so that the participants had to find out which letter had been there before. In all cases, those who spent time each day playing video games obtained more hits than non-players, according to the authors of the work in the magazineAttention, Perception and Psychophysics.
Hands.For those who develop their profession on the operating table, video games can also be powerful allies. A study published in the journalArchives of Surgeryrevealed that surgeons using laparoscopic techniques – a minimally invasive surgical technique, usually abdominal, performed through small incisions – operate 27% faster and with a 37% lower error rate if they play video games an average three hours a week, compared to those who rarely sit in front of a console, as their manual skills improve.
Michelines.Although the abuse of video games has traditionally been blamed for the rise in childhood obesity, a recent study by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (USA) suggests thatnew electronic games involving body movements may encourage physical exercise among children at high risk of gaining weight, as echoed by Games for Health magazine. To this is added that scientists from the University of Oklahoma have shown that, in adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18, video games that involve physical activity involve a calorie burn equal to or greater than that produced during moderate or moderate exercise. practicing a team sport.
