As soon as you take action games you will be able to make accurate judgments

Action gamesBy playing, people will be able to make quick decisions, that the accuracy of the judgment will not be compromised,University of RochesterThe research by cognitive scientists has made it clear.

For video games, nothing is acceptable, for exampleFPSof"call of duty"It is said that an action game with quick deployment is effective.

Details are as below.Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions that are No Less Accurate: University of Rochester News

Current biologyA study by Dr. Daphne Bavelier, a professor of cognitive science at Rochester University, which is scheduled to be published in a magazine, revealed that there is a training effect to accelerate human judgment in action games.

By playing an action game, a person has a sharp sense of what is going on in the surroundings, which not only improves the game, but also, for example, multitasking, driving, reading small letters, accompanying people in the crowd Do not lose sight of · I will not get lost in the way, it will also improve various skills useful in everyday life, Professors Bavelier and others are effective to increase the reaction speed in various situations of real life action games It will be a training method.

In the experiment, we divide the subjects from 18 to 25 years old who do not normally play games into two groups,Call Of Duty 2"(Picture) and"Unreal Tournament"Is deployed quickly like an action game, the other is"The Sims 2Slow development of likeSimulation gameFor 50 hours in a few weeks "training period" respectively.

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Subjects who completed "training period" conducted multiple tasks to measure the speed and accuracy of judgment. For example, it is a task to "judge whether a large number of dots moving irregularly on a computer screen are moving to the right or to the left as a whole average". Also, in order to confirm that the difference between the group of the action game and the group of the simulation game is not only visual one, we also performed similar task by only auditory information.

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As a result, the group who played the action game for 50 hours earlier judged 25% at the maximum compared to the group of the simulation game, and it seems that the correctness / error rate was not different from the simulation game group.

Professor Bavelier says, "The players of action games are not necessarily of a type that does not care about the accuracy of shooting guns unnecessarily, the judgment is getting faster as the accuracy does not change. There are a lot of accurate judgments that players can make per hour, for example for surgeons and soldiers this is very important. "

Professor Bavelier asks why the action game trains people's judgment speed, "The decision is not always a white and black issue, the brain always calculates various possibilities, for example during driving , The person who saw something moving on the right side has estimated whether it is on the course of collision when going as it is and based on its possibility, decides whether to step on or not to step on the brake It is explained.

Although it seems that this process that the brain always calculates various possibilities and derives judgment based on information obtained from visual and auditory sense is called "stochastic reasoning", "To make accurate judgment at least this Information is necessary "information amountThresholdExist. The player's brain of the action game can collect information efficiently from the visual and auditory sense and since it is earlier for the amount of collected information to reach the threshold for judgment, it is faster than the person who does not play the game It is possible to do.