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Playing Video Games Makes the Brain More Creative



Playing Video Games Makes the Brain More Creative by Sapna Vyas Patel

A recent study revealed that playing video games with regard to tactics and memorization can help a person think more flexibly. Flexible thinking is associated with a person's ability to think of many things at one time, or the ability to change focus quickly.

This discovery by researchers could be very useful in the treatment of people suffering from brain injuries or who have ADHD. Previous studies revealed that the action game genre can make people think and make decisions faster.


Playing Video Games Makes the Brain More Creative

"This study found that gaming genre and strategy and tactics can help a person thinking while working as well faster change focus while thinking," said Dr. Brian Glass from the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, as reported by U.S. News (23 / 08).

These results were found after researchers observed 72 women who play video games are less than two hours a week. Most participants were asked to play a strategy game called "StarCraft" while others were asked to play the regular game "The Sims" which is not too much need of tactics and strategy. Participants played this game for 40 hours in eight weeks.

Investigators later found that participants, who played StarCraft has the ability to think more flexibly, think faster and more accurate, compared with participants who play The Sims. Glass argues that flexible thinking skills can be learned by anyone through a fun way, like playing games.

Flexible thinking skills will make a person more creative in solving problems, more able to think outside the box, and enable them to think many things at the same time.

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