Action video games sharpen eyesight

[moz_k2]

Keep on playing guys, its good for our eyes.

source: by : Yahoo! Tech
Adults who play a lot of action video games may be improving their eyesight, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. They said people who used a video-game training program saw significant improvements in their ability to notice subtle differences in shades of gray, a finding that may help people who have trouble with night driving.
"Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means getting glasses or eye surgery -- somehow changing the optics of the eye," said Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester in New York, whose study appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
"But we've found that action video games train the brain to process the existing visual information more efficiently, and the improvements last for months after game play stopped."
For the study, the team divided 22 students into two groups. One group played the action games "Call of Duty 2" by Activision Blizzard Inc and Epic Games' "Unreal Tournament 2004." A second played Electronic Arts Inc's "The Sims 2," a game they said does not require as much hand-eye coordination.
The two groups played 50 hours of their assigned games over the course of nine weeks. At the end of the training, the action game players showed an average of 43 percent improvement in their ability to discern close shades of gray, while the Sims players showed none.
Bavelier found very practiced action gamers became 58 percent better at perceiving fine differences in contrast.
"When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it," Bavelier said in a statement.
She said the findings show that action video-game training may be a useful complement to eye-correction techniques.

Video game:The eye you save maybe your own.

[chagorio]

guitar hero, maka ba-id jud ug maayo sa imong hand-eye coordination....

[Chebar]

ambot lang kay nag sige man ka dako grado sakong antiojos.

[unban007]

approve..
ive been playing action game.. since elem. years CStrike..Quake.. Unreal etc..
also O2jam...hehehehe
sensitive kaau akong peripheral vision gud..way ming!

[tobby182]

nahhhh ang guitar hero maka hypno!

[handsoff241]

FPS gamers mostly, noticed that kind of improvement.. especially on "micro movements" kay maanad man gud ka.. but of course.. at the cause of your eyes' life span. abtik lage dali ra pud madaot.

but the likes of autojam and guitar hero nga naay tiles e drop at high speed.. mabagho-an akong mata. labi na kato first time nako duwa autojam pwerti nako lingawa pag barog nako barag gud ko. hehehe

[shinso]

That is mostly true, video games or any other activity that requires tracking usually improves vision. Pero this is not applicable to epileptics kay mag seize na cla ug intensive and visual stimulus. And it is also a fallacy that video games degrades vision, it is usually secondary to disease, heredity and trauma.

[moz_k2]

ipabasa ni sa inyo mga uyab nga mag cge ug reklamo kung magdula mo.
hehehe

[Inting Mnemonic]

ey! ....up for this thread..right you are sir!

[isha727]

i think i was able to read this, or another similar article.