Basic Shapes to Advanced Geometry |
Ordering Decimals, Fractions & Percentages |
“Similarly, we are interested if the skills learned in Tetris, and the associated brain changes, transfer to other cognitive areas such as working memory, processing speed, or spatial reasoning.”
“Haier would love to figure out how the different areas of the brain interact during mental training, on a time scale of milliseconds.”
“So Haier is setting his sights on yet another new technology, and it’s a real mouthful. Magnetoencephalography, or MEG, monitors the faint magnetic fields produced by the brain’s electrical activity.”
“I want to know what the heck is going on in those brains” How games change your brain |
This graphic shows areas of the brain that functioned more efficiently after three
months of video-game practice (blue) as well as areas where the cortex became
thicker (red). The left and right views show the left and right brain hemispheres.
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| One of the earliest and most noted studies in the field was conducted back in 1992 by neuroscientist Richard Haier |
| The “Tetris effect” illustrated how video-game training could make brains work more efficiently |
| The researchers recruited 26 girls, aged 12 to 15 |
| Both groups were monitored for changes in brain function as well as brain structure |
| Tetris players’ brain function became more efficient in areas linked to critical thinking, reasoning, language and information processing |
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