Decision Making Can Be Improved By Video Games
New scientific research shows that playing action computer games can help you make decisions more quickly and even the accuracy of those decisions.
Scientists had already demonstrated that video gamers had quicker reactions but the new research goes further.
It indicates that gamers not only make decisions more quickly but that those decisions are no less accurate, countering previous claims that gamers could simply be more trigger happy.
Half of the test subjects 18-25 year olds who did not normally play computer games spent 50 hours playing action games such as Call of Duty 7. The remaining 50% spent their 50 hours playing slower-paced strategy games.
The findings suggest that fast paced games, including driving games like Gran Turismo or sports games like Fifa 11, may also help to improve reaction times and making decisions.
Commenting on the findings, Daphne Bavelier, of the University of Rochester, New York and one of the authors of the study, said:
“It’s not the case that the action game players are trigger-happy and less accurate: they are just as accurate and also faster.
“Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.”
Certainly it would not seem improbable that games such as Call of Duty 7 may improve a strategic and real time reaction to similar (if more pressurised and deadly) situations in real life.
Likewise, it is absolutely not beyond the realms of possibility that continued practice on driving games like Gran Turismo 5 could potentially help quicken reactions in a race situation. Especially given the realism that goes into recreating famous racing circuits.
It is, though, likely to take a fairly monumental leap in technology before playing on football games like Fifa 2011 is any substitute for playing yourself.
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: Action Packed Game That Will Surely Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat
Do you feel the thirst for war or at least a simulation of it? If you do, then you will definitely want to have the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare game for your PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. This game is an action packed game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.
If you played Call of Duty before, then this is the fourth installment of the game and it is also the only Call of Duty that is not set during World War II.
This game introduces a much wider choice of game play styles with the single player mode that will surely keep you excited when playing the game. There are added features that have never been seen before on the previous Call of Duty installments.
One change that was made in the game is now removed from the regular three country specific styles and focuses more on a plot that’s like a film style. You can expect the game to be interlaced by different story lines from the main character named Paul Jackson who is a fictional character that is supposedly an element of the USMC 1st Force Recon. Another main character is named “Soap” MacTavish who is a part of the British 22nd SAS Regiment.
In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, you will also get cameo-missions where in you will play an AC-130 Spectre Gunship gunner or you can be one of the two-man sniper teams who are behind the enemy lines.
In this game, you will experience high intensity firefights and take a hold of modern weapons and technology, such as M203 grenade launchers and even the AN/PEQ-2 Target Pointer. There are also night vision goggles and submachine guns that you can use.
With the variety of missions that you can play, you will see that playing this game will keep you occupied for hours with the best action.
There are also multiplayer modes where you can play with other players and kill each other’s character. This means that you will be able to enjoy this game with your friends. You can even do a free-for-all where it is every man for himself.
With the stunning graphics and realistic sound, you will feel as if you are really on the battlefield. The environment is also very interactive as you will be able to blow up cars and even buildings.
So, if you want a realistic first person shooter game for your PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, you might want to consider getting Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. With this game, you will definitely feel as if you are on the battlefield.