What did you like about the class? I liked everything about this class i thought it was a lot of fun and i learned a lot of new things about myself as well as my friends
What was your favorite activity or project? my favorite activity was the brain models
What didn't you like about the class? there really wasn't anything that I didn't like
What do you think I should leave out next year? I don't think you should leave anything out
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Video Games Improve Cognitive Skills in Older Adults
I was looking through articles and after reading an article about how videogames help teens develope social skills i came across another article which i found interesting which was talking about how video games help improve cognitive skills in the elderly.
This is the first such study of older adults, and it is the first to find such pronounced effects on cognitive skills not directly related to the skills learned in the video game,After testing several video games, the researchers selected “Rise of Nations,” which gives gamers points for building cities and “wonders,” feeding and employing their people, maintaining an adequate military and expanding their territory.After the elderly played the game they were given tests to see if the game had made an impact on their cognitive skills.The tests included measures of their ability to switch between tasks, their short-term visual memory, their reasoning skills and their working memory.The researchers tested 20 elderly adults whom had played the game and 20 elderly adults who hadn't played the game. The results in the test proved that the elderly who played the video game did better on the cogntive tests than the ones that did not.
I found this article really intriguing because most articles I read about video games look at video games negatively and this was one of the few articles i found that promoted playing video games.
I was looking through articles and after reading an article about how videogames help teens develope social skills i came across another article which i found interesting which was talking about how video games help improve cognitive skills in the elderly.
This is the first such study of older adults, and it is the first to find such pronounced effects on cognitive skills not directly related to the skills learned in the video game,After testing several video games, the researchers selected “Rise of Nations,” which gives gamers points for building cities and “wonders,” feeding and employing their people, maintaining an adequate military and expanding their territory.After the elderly played the game they were given tests to see if the game had made an impact on their cognitive skills.The tests included measures of their ability to switch between tasks, their short-term visual memory, their reasoning skills and their working memory.The researchers tested 20 elderly adults whom had played the game and 20 elderly adults who hadn't played the game. The results in the test proved that the elderly who played the video game did better on the cogntive tests than the ones that did not.
I found this article really intriguing because most articles I read about video games look at video games negatively and this was one of the few articles i found that promoted playing video games.
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