Zeonic Freak
10-03-2007, 04:49 PM
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/10/03/action-games-improve-womens-spatial-abilities-says-new-study/
http://kotaku.com/gaming/uh-oh/video-games-fix-weak-woman-brains-306603.php
Video Games Fix Weak Woman Brains (http://kotaku.com/gaming/uh-oh/video-games-fix-weak-woman-brains-306603.php)
http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/10/130-322%7ELucille-Ball-Posters.jpgWe've long heard that, scientifically speaking, woman are not as good as men at tasks like mathematics. And while my wife, who is incidentally both a psychologist and smarter than me, may disagree with such assertions (or may not), one University of Toronto study has found that video games may give women a leg up in spatial task processing, thereby potentially closing the gap on topics like geometry (...or even driving?).
Our second experiment showed that both men and women can improve their spatial skills by playing a video game and that the women catch up to the men...
Moreover, the improved performance of both sexes was maintained when we assessed them again after five months...Clearly, something dramatic is happening in the brain when we see marked improvements in spatial skills after only 10 hours of game playing and these improvements are maintained for many months.
While research has consistently shown that the male brain has advantages in spatial skills like geometry, interpreting technical drawings and reading maps, a new study says that playing action-oriented video games can equalize the sexes in that regard. Researchers at the University of Toronto (http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/070927-3416.asp) report they have observed a potential key component in the brains’ ability to process spatial information. It could account for the difference in abilities between the sexes. Jing Feng, lead author of the study, explains:
On average, women are not quite as good at rapidly switching attention among different objects and this may be one reason why women do not do as well on spatial tasks.
Mmm, this is interesting. So these researchers at Toronto are saying that women who pay video games will keep them "on top of things" and using there minds in better situations.
Now, im not making this thread a sexist thing, this is a researched study and i have the sources to prove them, so feminsit, keep your boy shorts on...
http://kotaku.com/gaming/uh-oh/video-games-fix-weak-woman-brains-306603.php
Video Games Fix Weak Woman Brains (http://kotaku.com/gaming/uh-oh/video-games-fix-weak-woman-brains-306603.php)
http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/10/130-322%7ELucille-Ball-Posters.jpgWe've long heard that, scientifically speaking, woman are not as good as men at tasks like mathematics. And while my wife, who is incidentally both a psychologist and smarter than me, may disagree with such assertions (or may not), one University of Toronto study has found that video games may give women a leg up in spatial task processing, thereby potentially closing the gap on topics like geometry (...or even driving?).
Our second experiment showed that both men and women can improve their spatial skills by playing a video game and that the women catch up to the men...
Moreover, the improved performance of both sexes was maintained when we assessed them again after five months...Clearly, something dramatic is happening in the brain when we see marked improvements in spatial skills after only 10 hours of game playing and these improvements are maintained for many months.
While research has consistently shown that the male brain has advantages in spatial skills like geometry, interpreting technical drawings and reading maps, a new study says that playing action-oriented video games can equalize the sexes in that regard. Researchers at the University of Toronto (http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/070927-3416.asp) report they have observed a potential key component in the brains’ ability to process spatial information. It could account for the difference in abilities between the sexes. Jing Feng, lead author of the study, explains:
On average, women are not quite as good at rapidly switching attention among different objects and this may be one reason why women do not do as well on spatial tasks.
Mmm, this is interesting. So these researchers at Toronto are saying that women who pay video games will keep them "on top of things" and using there minds in better situations.
Now, im not making this thread a sexist thing, this is a researched study and i have the sources to prove them, so feminsit, keep your boy shorts on...