{"id":3298,"date":"2014-10-18T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2014-10-18T09:32:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:32:45","slug":"gamers-can-be-quick-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/gamers-can-be-quick-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamers can be quick learners<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that while people who play video games don\u2019t necessarily have better sensorimotor skills than non-gamers, they are significantly faster at learning sensorimotor tasks.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 18 gamers and 18 non-gamers were asked to complete a task that involved keeping a cursor in the centre of a moving target. When the target moved in a complex but predictable pattern, gamers learned to be successful at the task more quickly than non-gamers. However, when the target moved in an unpredictable pattern, neither group fared very well.<\/p>\n<p>The study suggests that video game experience could help in learning sensorimotor tasks, which include everything from typing to performing laparoscopic surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25318081\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Human Movement Science\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 12,\u00a02014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Davood Gozli, University of Toronto,\u00a0Ontario<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Jay Pratt,\u00a0University of Toronto,\u00a0Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that while people who play video games don\u2019t necessarily have better sensorimotor skills than non-gamers, they are significantly faster at learning sensorimotor tasks. A group of 18 gamers and 18 non-gamers were asked to complete a task that involved keeping a cursor in the centre of a moving target. When the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[282,1677,200,50,2238],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-neurology","tag-ontario","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}