Post by leunas on Mar 16, 2007 12:42:57 GMT -5
This probably explains why many Asians and motion-sick people, like me, need corrective lenses.
A new study claims that playing fast-paced shooter games can help improve the eye’s ability to distinguish objects in cluttered spaces.
Think about it: When playing Gears of War, you have the uncanny ability to identify the toe of a Locust sticking out from behind a concrete barrier from a mile away.
Are you superhuman? No… rather you started training your eyes to decipher cluttered areas since you began playing Castle Wolfenstein on your 386.
University of Rochester’s Daphne Bevelier published a new study in the Psychological Science journal that explained that certain eye conditions have to do with the size and shape of the eye. Some traits of an eye, however, are neural, she said, and can be developed.
Shooters such as Gears of War, Halo and Lost Planet help study subjects improve spatial resolution.
Bevelier said that fast-paced shooters “push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
Such games could also help slow the aging process and treat conditions such as lazy eye, she said.
However, slower-paced games such as Tetris don't have a similar effect on eyesight.
(Crysis pictured.)
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A new study claims that playing fast-paced shooter games can help improve the eye’s ability to distinguish objects in cluttered spaces.
Think about it: When playing Gears of War, you have the uncanny ability to identify the toe of a Locust sticking out from behind a concrete barrier from a mile away.
Are you superhuman? No… rather you started training your eyes to decipher cluttered areas since you began playing Castle Wolfenstein on your 386.
University of Rochester’s Daphne Bevelier published a new study in the Psychological Science journal that explained that certain eye conditions have to do with the size and shape of the eye. Some traits of an eye, however, are neural, she said, and can be developed.
Shooters such as Gears of War, Halo and Lost Planet help study subjects improve spatial resolution.
Bevelier said that fast-paced shooters “push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
Such games could also help slow the aging process and treat conditions such as lazy eye, she said.
However, slower-paced games such as Tetris don't have a similar effect on eyesight.
(Crysis pictured.)
www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4944&Itemid=2