{"id":204356,"date":"2010-01-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2179437"},"modified":"2010-01-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:00:00","slug":"big-brains-for-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/204356","title":{"rendered":"Big brains for video games"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Erickson et al. \/ Cerebral Cortex<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR>
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A cutaway image shows four brain structures studied in the video-game research.
the caudate nucleus (blue), putamen (red), nucleus accumbens (orange spot) and
hippocampus (green). Researchers found linkages between game performance
and the first three structures, but no linkage involving the hippocampus.

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Does playing video games improve your brain? Or do bigger brains make it easier to learn video games?<\/P>
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Psychologists say they can predict how well you’ll do on a video game by looking at the size of just three little structures inside your brain. If those structures are bigger, you’ll probably catch on more quickly and do better.<\/P>
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But don’t start bragging about how gamers are naturally brainier just yet. The psychologists have more puzzles to solve before they level up.<\/P>
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“We’re really at the tip of the iceberg in understanding how all this gets put together,” said the University of Pittsburgh’s Kirk Erickson, the study’s principal author.<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erickson et al. \/ Cerebral Cortex A cutaway image shows four brain structures studied in the video-game research. the caudate nucleus (blue), putamen (red), nucleus accumbens (orange spot) and hippocampus (green). Researchers found linkages between game performance and the first three structures, but no linkage involving the hippocampus. Does playing video games improve your brain? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}