Playing Video Games Helps Learn Visual Skills Faster: Study

Playing video games not only improves visual skills but also improves learning ability for acquiring those skills, finds a study from the Brown University.

"When we study perceptual learning, we usually exclude people who have tonnes ofvideo game playing time because they seem to have different visual processing. They are quicker and more accurate," explained senior author and associate professor Yuka Sasaki.To conduct the study, the researchers pitted nine frequent gamers against a control group of nine people who game rarely if ever. They participated in a two-day trial of visual task learning.

Subjects were shown an on-screen "texture" of either vertical or horizontal lines and had to quickly point out - in a fraction of a second - the one area where an anomalous texture appeared.

In visual processing research, this is a standard protocol called a "texture discrimination task".

Sasaki and colleagues trained the subjects on a second similar task soon after training them on the first.If in the first task the main texture was horizontal, for example, the second time it was vertical or vice versa.The gamers managed to improve performance on both tasks while non-gamers did what was expected: They improved on the second task they trained on, but not on the first.

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