Surgeons who practice laparoscopy say that video games and advanced piano technique are important tools in their ability to control the machine for operations.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D and N Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 2:00 PM To: Keith Hudson; RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] A new cultural set I found this part very interesting. The emotionally stimulating is favoured by memory, and can be both good or disturbing. Good posting! Natalia On 11/21/2010 2:41 AM, Keith Hudson wrote: In an experiment at the German Sport University in Cologne in 2007, boys from 12 to 14 spent an hour each night playing video games after they finished homework. On alternate nights, the boys spent an hour watching an exciting movie, like Harry Potter or Star Trek, rather than playing video games. That allowed the researchers to compare the effect of video games and TV. The researchers looked at how the use of these media affected the boysbrainwave patterns while sleeping and their ability to remember their homework in the subsequent days. They found that playing video games led to markedly lower sleep quality than watching TV, and also led to a significant decline in the boys' ability to remember vocabulary words. The findings were published <http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/120/5/978> in the journal Pediatrics. Markus Dworak, a researcher who led the study and is now a neuroscientist at Harvard <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/harvard _university/index.html?inline=nyt-org> , said it was not clear whether the boys' learning suffered because sleep was disrupted or, as he speculates, also because the intensity of the game experience overrode the brain's recording of the vocabulary. When you look at vocabulary and look at huge stimulus after that, your brain has to decide which information to store,he said. Your brain might favor the emotionally stimulating information over the vocabulary.
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