{"id":1118,"date":"2006-02-10T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2006-02-10T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T15:11:54","slug":"mental-agility-and-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Mental agility and video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The people who were video game players were better and faster performers,&#8221; said psychologist Ellen Bialystok, a research professor at York University. &#8220;Those who were bilingual and video game addicts scored best &#8212; particularly at the most difficult tasks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a story in The Globe and Mail on February 9th, 2006, research at York shows that playing video games has a similar effect on mental abilities as bilingualism. The story by Carolyn Abraham, <a title=\"globeandmail.com : Better living through video games?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20060209.BRAINS09\/TPStory\/?query=\">Better living through video games?<\/a>, is based on research by Professor Bialystok that will be published in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Biology. The research looked at 100 university students in Toronto.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prof. Bialystok suspects video gamers, like bilinguals, have a practised ability to block out information that is irrelevant to the task at hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This explains why my kids don&#8217;t hear me calling them for dinner.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBy the way, note the new design for the <a title=\"globeandmail.com : On-line discussion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060207.wdesignptr0207\/BNStory\/Front\/home\/?pageRequested=2\">globeandmail.com<\/a>. Looks to me like the <a title=\"Guardian Unlimited\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">Guardian Unlimited<\/a> but with the text on left instead of the centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The people who were video game players were better and faster performers,&#8221; said psychologist Ellen Bialystok, a research professor at York University. &#8220;Those who were bilingual and video game addicts scored best &#8212; particularly at the most difficult tasks.&#8221; According to a story in The Globe and Mail on February 9th, 2006, research at York &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mental agility and video games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}