FPS Gamers have better decision making skills

[busydude]

"Researchers compared the skills of action gamers versus non-gamers by presenting both groups with simple decision-making experiments, where people appeared in the form of an array of dots and the volunteers had to discern the person's main direction of movement. They made this task easier and harder by adding to or taking away the number of dots moving in one direction.

Gamers were able to identify direction both faster and more accurately than non-gamers, according to Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Rochester. However, she adds that the gamers had to have experience with "shooter games, where you go through a maze and you don't know when a villain will appear. It's not exactly what you'd think of as mind enhancing."


(According to their findings, strategy and role-playing games don't have the same effect.)


Bavelier adds that an interesting finding in the improved probabilistic inference skills among action gamers is that it transfers to so many other tasks, as opposed to most kinds of training that help develop skills specific to what is being taught."


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[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Reminds me of that study of surgeons that played games vs those that don't, and the surgeon gamers made less mistakes and worked more quickly than those that didn't.

 

[guyver01]

Yes.
Yes we do.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

My son has mad typing skills, I know that.

 

[zinfamous]

except for the one crucial decision:

playing an FPS as opposed to going out and getting laid.

study failure.

 

[busydude]

Go FPS gamers!

There was some other study which says gamers have reflexes of a fighter pilot and bodies of 60 year old smokers.

Those might be the people who play a combination of FPS and MMORPG's.

 

[Newbian]

They will be the ones you want on your side then the zombie apocalypse happens as they will know what weapons to use when the time comes.

 

[guyver01]

They will be the ones you want on your side then the zombie apocalypse happens as they will know what weapons to use when the time comes.

this is my weapon of choice:

 

[Newbian]

this is my weapon of choice:

Duel wielding chainsaws.... you sir won the internet.

 

[bfdd]

Duh? Every decision we make in an FPS is a life and death situation(in game of course and this isn't 100% true but mostly is), not so for RTS, and other types of gamers.

 

[olds]

<--- only plays FPS'

 

[coldmeat]

I'm a FPS gamer but I make shit decisions. I do however, make them really quickly.

 

[coxmaster]

<--- only plays FPS'

This

Honestly, I would say FPS experience helped me a TON with thinking quickly when i worked retail

 

[Malak]

I'm a FPS gamer but I make shit decisions. I do however, make them really quickly.

LOL. I'm the opposite with RTS games. I make good decisions, very slowly. I always lose.

 

[Jeff7]

Reminds me of that study of surgeons that played games vs those that don't, and the surgeon gamers made less mistakes and worked more quickly than those that didn't.

"*sigh*...This guy's not going to survive more than another minute. We can't do anything else."

"BOOM HEADSHOT!"

"...that's really not appropriate right now."

 

[busydude]

They will be the ones you want on your side then the zombie apocalypse happens as they will know what weapons to use when the time comes.

2012 will happen sooner than Zombie apocalypse.
OTOH, I am having my share of fun killings in L4D2.

<--- only plays FPS'

Totally, me too...oh and racing.

I'm a FPS gamer but I make shit decisions. I do however, make them really quickly.

One quick decision I made was to build a gaming rig, while begin a severely broke college student.

 

[TecHNooB]

lol @ ppl convincing themselves playing fps games has helped them in life.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

lol @ ppl convincing themselves playing fps games has helped them in life.

I'm more than happy to have met a ton of cool folks at No Heroes, both online and IRL.

 

[busydude]

lol @ ppl convincing themselves playing fps games has helped them in life.

lol @ your ignorance.

 

[0roo0roo]

Of course, there is also evidence that these better decision makers may also be more aggressive. Guess we can follow their careers into the military, or politics, or both. I can see the vetting process already: "Approximately how many hours of Call of Duty Black Ops did you clock in back in the fall of 2010? Only 200? Get back to your station."

:awe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfCiOzL7cYs&feature=player_embedded

 

[Powermoloch]

nice :thumbsup:

I concur