05-29-2003, 07:41 PM
Hi,
From the article: "Researchers are reporting today that first-person-shooter video games â the kind that require players to kill or maim enemies or monsters that pop out of nowhere â sharply improve visual attention skills. "
Now, you say you don't believe it and give as examples a bunch of things that have nothing to do with visual attention skills. You conclude that "I disagree with this article even though I have been playing games for years."
Looks to me like you need to find something that improves your reading comprehension skills.
--Pete
BTW, I for one found nothing strange or unusual in this article. We mostly live in a world where attention to what is going on is no longer much of a survival characteristic. This is pretty clear from the way people drive and even from how they walk. So the ability to be aware of our surroundings is never fully developed in most. Training in that ability develops it. What is so earth shaking about that?
From the article: "Researchers are reporting today that first-person-shooter video games â the kind that require players to kill or maim enemies or monsters that pop out of nowhere â sharply improve visual attention skills. "
Now, you say you don't believe it and give as examples a bunch of things that have nothing to do with visual attention skills. You conclude that "I disagree with this article even though I have been playing games for years."
Looks to me like you need to find something that improves your reading comprehension skills.
--Pete
BTW, I for one found nothing strange or unusual in this article. We mostly live in a world where attention to what is going on is no longer much of a survival characteristic. This is pretty clear from the way people drive and even from how they walk. So the ability to be aware of our surroundings is never fully developed in most. Training in that ability develops it. What is so earth shaking about that?
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