Scientists Prove That Action-Packed Video Games Are The Key To Top-Notch Mental Fitness
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 just—you guessed it—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
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
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 processing—meaning expert AVG gamers would generally speaking have a higher chance of being a skilled data processor than an amateur.Â