According to research generated by Rochester University, computer games, and more specifically, the type of games played has a marked effect on the speed at which players could solve timed questions correctly.
Drawn from a group of 18-25 year old subjects that were themselves non-gamers, half were made to play fast-paced action games, such as Unreal Tournament and Call Of Duty 2 (Oh, the horror!) as the other half were subjected to The Sims 2 (No, really, the horror…the horror…), each for 50 hours combined play time.
With the gameplay out of the way, both groups were given various questions and simple tasks to complete as fast as they could, with the ‘action’ group proving to be 25% faster on average than the slow-paced ‘strategy’ group.
Further proof, then, that The Sims rots your brain.
Brilliant.
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Interesting study.
No playing Sims before a timed test then. lol
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Tren (September 20th, 2010)
I know- I keep trying to double jump in real life to get places faster… and Punch open cardboard boxes to find a giant ham and re-fill my energy. Unfortunately I get a lot of weird looks and not enough ham…
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yellowbouncyball (September 20th, 2010)