Studies have shown that any activity we engage in has a significant effect on the brain and its functions, for example watching a porn video has it's effects on your dopamine and serotonin levels thereby increasing the release of the hormone that is meant for arousal, when there muscle is overstretched with no release then there is a negative feedback causing the person to have temporary memory loss and depressive behavior. Also when we play violent games, our frontal lobe is at work thus makes us feel anxiety, arousal or restlessness.
When playing an action game, it requires high speed, perception and motor load on the brain. There is a high degree of unpredictability and affects peripheral processes. Playing action packed video games attenuate frontal lobe activity which affects the hippocampus and coordination. It also improves visual attention, and contrast sensitivity which is needed to navigate during the night time. But generally, shooting games are said to improve better hand to eye coordination, superior memory and increase the size of the brain that is responsible for visual spatial thinking.
Estimated there are over 2.6 billion people that play games in the world, the average gamer is aged between 34 years, there are developments that allow people to earn money by playing games like in crypto gaming. Therefore gaming is a platform for everybody, the information being exchanged in the gaming world over a server. Games now allow people to build communities from different parties of the world on one server, we are now allowed to connect on a broader level.
During a survey that was conducted in the University of California, a simple action game that required clicking on the dots before they come in contact with a waĺl was given to a group of men and women. The men significantly did better than the women because they seemed to pick the dots that would cause a lot of damage in the long run. Therefore the male gender seemed to be more calculative when it came to this game. The brain of man has more connection between the left and right side of the brain in the cerebellum, therefore they are considered to have better coordination over movement and perspective. In female, they use the part of the left brain more which is for logical thinking, and the right of the brain is for intuitive thinking, so if there is a task that requires logical and intuitive thinkers, women are more suited for that type of task.
In Conclusion, there was a period growing up when we thought that video games rot the brain, but obviously that is not true, simple task games should be involved in the schooling system of today to help develop a child at a tender stage and make him/her learn how to perform simple tasks and solve simple problems.
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