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<blockquote data-quote="apoptosis" data-source="post: 4371413" data-attributes="member: 3226">i got bored and decided to investigate neural activity during video games and frankly and the studies are very sparse (basically close to nonexistent).There were 2 studies by Hiraki (adults and children; similar results) that did show that during video game play activity in the dorsal prefrontal cortex (really important to cognition and is activated in highly creative events like jazz improvisation and hypothesis generation as determined by fMRI) was reduced.What that means...heck, who knows. It was a limited study in regards to number of subjects (but that was really not an issue with this study) and limited amount of study time and the methods were a bit crude to see detailed analysis of different parts of the dPFC (used near IR spec). They didn't do a long enough study to see if chronic play had long term effects.Most likely the results are due to a goal-achieving activities and visual attention demand (this last point though does go to the idea that internal visual creation probably has different effects than external visual attention). So take that all for what it is worth. They have been experimenting with new neuroimaging techniques that might have more investigative prowess but that will be awhile before we know much more.apoptosisedit..i should add the video games that were played were a shooter game, puzzle game and 2 other sorts and not a online RPG</blockquote>

[QUOTE="apoptosis, post: 4371413, member: 3226"] i got bored and decided to investigate neural activity during video games and frankly and the studies are very sparse (basically close to nonexistent). There were 2 studies by Hiraki (adults and children; similar results) that did show that during video game play activity in the dorsal prefrontal cortex (really important to cognition and is activated in highly creative events like jazz improvisation and hypothesis generation as determined by fMRI) was reduced. What that means...heck, who knows. It was a limited study in regards to number of subjects (but that was really not an issue with this study) and limited amount of study time and the methods were a bit crude to see detailed analysis of different parts of the dPFC (used near IR spec). They didn't do a long enough study to see if chronic play had long term effects. Most likely the results are due to a goal-achieving activities and visual attention demand (this last point though does go to the idea that internal visual creation probably has different effects than external visual attention). So take that all for what it is worth. They have been experimenting with new neuroimaging techniques that might have more investigative prowess but that will be awhile before we know much more. apoptosis edit..i should add the video games that were played were a shooter game, puzzle game and 2 other sorts and not a online RPG [/QUOTE]

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