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Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« on: January 22, 2010, 06:26:46 AM »
Finding games hard may be down to the size of your brain

If you find games hard (like Andy and especially Tom), it could just be down to certain parts of your brain, a new study has suggested.

The BBC is reporting that US researchers found they could predict how well an amateur player might perform on a game by measuring the volume of key sections of the brain.

These US researchers reckon there are certain parts of the brain which can be disproportionately larger, and this may explain some differences in cognitive ability. Tom and Andy will be pleased.

39 adults (10 men, 29 women) who had spent less than three hours each week playing video games in the previous two years were tested. They had to play one of two versions of a specially developed game. One with a a single goal, the other with shifting priorities.

This is where it gets deep: "MRI scans showed participants with a larger nucleus accumbens, which is part of the brain's reward centre, outperformed others in the first few hours, perhaps due to the 'sense of achievement and the emotional reward' accompanying achievement in the earliest stages of learning, the team speculated.

"But those players who ultimately performed best on the game in which priorities changed had larger sections deep in the centre of the brain, known as the caudate and putamen."

If that means anything to you and you want to know more, head over to the BBC


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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2010, 06:46:46 AM »
So what you're saying Craig is that I'm stupid!  ;)


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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2010, 07:00:11 AM »
So what you're saying Craig is that I'm stupid!  ;)

I would never say such things, well not about any of you lot anyway, maybe myself though  ;D


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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2010, 07:10:21 AM »
I can admit to myself that I am not a very good gamer, looks like it may be beacuse I have a small brain!  :-\


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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2010, 07:12:27 AM »
I can admit to myself that I am not a very good gamer, looks like it may be beacuse I have a small brain!  :-\

Don't put yourself down mate, you're good at some and not as good at others, like all of us, you're a beast with a chainsaw thats for sure  :)


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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2010, 07:44:45 AM »
pfft! what a load of Bollocks  ;)
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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2010, 08:29:08 AM »
I can admit to myself that I am not a very good gamer, looks like it may be beacuse I have a small brain!  :-\

Don't put yourself down mate, you're good at some and not as good at others, like all of us, you're a beast with a chainsaw thats for sure  :)

That's true, but I'm crap when it comes to blue aliens voiced by Deanna Troi!!! ;)


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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2010, 08:41:24 AM »
They do all kinds of silly tests now a days though.  Most of them are made to show certain stuff.  Maybe if I found 50 people with Large brains that are crap at games I can disprove their theory.

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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2010, 12:40:07 PM »
I'm sh*t when it comes to steroid induced soldiers in leather!

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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2010, 12:55:09 PM »
So how come i suck at some are ok at others does it mean my brain grows and shrinks depending on what game i play

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Re: Face It - You may just be born a bad gamer
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2010, 09:29:16 AM »
No Reaper, that's alcohol induced..........

 

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