Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure neural activity in 47 college-age participants, made up of 28 people who regularly played video games and 19 people who didn't. Those who played predominantly engaged in highly active real-time games, such as real-time strategy, first-person shooters or team-styled 'arena' or 'royal' battles.
The volunteers were asked to press buttons in response to the direction that a series of dots were moving on a display in front of them. Regular video game players were both faster and more accurate in responding, and the resulting fMRI scans showed that there was also enhanced activity in certain parts of their brains.
Or the people who already had an aptitude for gaming chose to play video games regularly. They need to do a study where they randomly assign people to play video games for a while, then see whether there is some improvement.
Just like the fat study, diet soda doesn't make people fat, rather fat people have really bad logic from all the fat in their brains and assume diet soda will help make them lose weight. Which one caused which? Did fat people start drinking soda, or did the soda make people fat? Nobody knows because the hamplanets might get offended
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