{"id":997,"date":"2014-04-11T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=997"},"modified":"2014-04-19T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T18:37:02","slug":"starcraft-2-players-get-old-at-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/starcraft-2-players-get-old-at-24\/","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft 2 players get old at 24<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_998\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1285336028_ff0b8da62e_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-998\" alt=\"Starcraft 2 is an online, real-time strategy, computer game. (Credit: Wlodi, Flickr.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1285336028_ff0b8da62e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1285336028_ff0b8da62e_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1285336028_ff0b8da62e_z-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1285336028_ff0b8da62e_z-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starcraft 2 is an online, real-time strategy, computer game. (Credit: Wlodi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wlodi\/1285336028\/\">Flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we age, our ability to process information and react in fast manner becomes dulled. New research shows that within a popular video game, StarCraft 2, response times start to decline at 24 years of age, regardless of a player\u2019s skill. The authors analyzed data on 3,305 players aged between 16 and 44 of all experiences. Some older players adapted to this situation by favouring simpler strategies or by a better use of the game interface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/video-library\/video\/726\/view.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">available here<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0094215\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em><\/em><i>PLOS One\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>April 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/cslab-sfu.ca\/team\/joe-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph J. Thompson<\/a>, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we age, our ability to process information and react in fast manner becomes dulled. New research shows that within a popular video game, StarCraft 2, response times start to decline at 24 years of age, regardless of a player\u2019s skill. The authors analyzed data on 3,305 players aged between 16 and 44 of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":998,"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":[26],"tags":[1123],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-aging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1285336028_ff0b8da62e_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-g5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}