Scientists Prove That Action-Packed Video Games Are The Key To Top-Notch Mental Fitness

by N/A, 10 years ago | 1 min read

Action Video Games, or AVGs, are pretty much exactly what they sound like. They're video games that involve a lot of hand-eye coordination, depend on fast reaction-time and are ultimately justâ€”you guessed itâ€”action packed.Â

Games like this may be super fun but they're probably not serving much purpose in the sense of self-betterment, right?Â

Wrong.Â

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New research has shown that expert AVG gamers have much better connectivity within their brain than people who play on the amateur level, connectivity that affects cognitive functioning, motor control and perception.

This had been a notion that has been suggested many times before but recent research from Scientific Reports actually put this idea into an experiment that yielded pretty clear results. The experiment involved 27 expert and 30 amateur gamers and had their brains scanned by MRI machines, looking specifically at the Insular Cortex.Â

The white lines in this image show where experts had enhanced brain connections as opposed to amateurs, where those connections don't exist.

These images show the left and right hemispheres of the brains. Those separate regions detailed are regions where connections are possible. The expert brains also had more grey matter, and grey matter is ultimately in charge of data processingâ€”meaning expert AVG gamers would generally speaking have a higher chance of being a skilled data processor than an amateur.Â