Brain Sees Violent Video Games as Real Life - Study - New York Times: "Mathiak found that as violence became imminent, the cognitive parts of the brain became active and that during a fight, emotional parts of the brain were shut down.
The pattern was the same as that seen in subjects who have had brain scans during other simulated violent situations.
It suggests that video games are a ``training for the brain to react with this pattern,'' Mathiak says.
The research was presented at a meeting in Canada and reported by New Scientist magazine.
Whether violent videos make people more aggressive though is hard to prove, the magazine noted. Studies have suggested players of violent games are in fact more aggressive but have left open the question of whether the games made them that way."
No comments:
Post a Comment