The Games of the brain: how video games can Make You Smart

Video games have always been a bad reputation. Certainly are a couple of nothing but pointing several deadly weapons in the Undead and blasting into a bajillion pieces. And there are cases of people wasting otherwise productive hours conquering a virtual kingdom and accumulating pixelized gold instead of going out and getting a real job.

But there are many, many times, when video games really a noble purpose in society. If you are a better person. Oat least an intelligent person.

Why are video games, reasoning and logic actually built and includes the solution of complex problems, you can take with you even after leaving, had from the computer screen.

Take Tetris. Okay, so it is a few blocks of color against a metallic, monotonous sound set - but it takes a certain amount of quick thinking and analysis form the pieces fall from the top of the screen to evaluate and decide where to putit. Factor that accelerates the game at regular intervals and the stack of blocks grows with every mistake you make, up to a time when one wrong move, your chances of reaching kill to beat the world record - and your brain starts quite work fast. use faster, in fact, that you normally would during the day, I admit, most of the things you do in office rather than the mind numbing, though. Among the pencil points and enforcement exercises lightning spatial analysis, Tetrisseems to be really good for you.

And then there are the memory games. Ever have 20 minutes to find the keys? Or standing in the middle of the parking lot trying to remember if you parked on the same plane? Be ', games of memory capable of working, so do not forget muscle of the brain important things (and yes, even your wedding anniversary). Studies show that memory is not really a function of IQ, is a skill: the ability to organize information in your brain andcollected through a series of memory triggers. Not all of this is conscious (although you can take active steps to use deposit by research on what methods could be improved). But like all skills, it improved with use. Therefore, memory games. The best part of memory games is that they are actually fun (as elements rather than simply memorize a list of the capitals of Member States or the periodic table ) and also relaxing. Yes, relaxing. You're doing something you love andgetting smarter at the same time. Not a bad way to spend a 20-minute break between sessions.

And then there are the strategy games. The conquest of the world, running in a city, the development of an empire from a handful of barbarian villages as the first country to establish a space station on Mars - apparently these are not only an arbitrary point and shoot games.'s about the same skills you learn in business school, but with cooler graphics: Come to manage resources in order to motivate andObjectives.

So yes, video games can make you smart. Tell that to Mom next time she says she hit the books.