Playing Games is Good for the Brain
- Reported, January 17, 2012
 (Ivanhoe
Newswire) – Turn that video game—on? A new study led by Rui Nouchi of Tohoku
University in Japan, where the Brain Age game was developed, shows that brain
training computer games can improve some cognitive functions.
Nouchi and his team selected 32 elderly people to participate in their four week
study. During this period, the participants played either Brain Age or Tetris,
for 15 minutes per day, at least five days a week. At the end of the four weeks,
Nouchi and his colleagues found that the Brain Age players showed small
improvements in their executive functions and processing speeds, but other
cognitive functions were unchanged.
According to researchers, the relatively short training time used in the study
suggests that it may be possible to improve some cognitive functions quite
rapidly.
SOURCE: PLos One, January 2012
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