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Undisputed-
United States379 Posts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8471182.stm "If you find video games a struggle, it could be to do with the size of certain parts of your brain, a study suggests. US researchers found they could predict how well an amateur player might perform on a game by measuring the volume of key sections of the brain. ..." Full Article found by Carnivorous Sheep http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/bhp293v1 | ||
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
Well fuck me sideways.. that is a tremendous breakthrough. I also read an article that said if you the ability to run fast you might do well in track. | ||
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mOnion
United States5657 Posts
On January 26 2010 06:14 {88}iNcontroL wrote: Interesting.. so you are saying there is a link between how smart you are and how good you'd be at video games? Well fuck me sideways.. that is a tremendous breakthrough. I also read an article that said if you the ability to run fast you might do well in track. roooooooofl /thread hopefully some ppl will see this article and see that video games arent the mindless dribble that ppl think they are. *fist pump* JACK THOMPSONNNNN | ||
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Oracle
Canada411 Posts
Interesting.. so you are saying there is a link between how smart you are and how good you'd be at video games? Well fuck me sideways.. that is a tremendous breakthrough. I also read an article that said if you the ability to run fast you might do well in track. If you're going to understate something, at least know all the facts first. Maybe it doesn't interest you but people who deal with the human brain and neurology it is a tremendous breakthrough; categorizing the brain is key in understand it. Not that im going for the pseudo-intellectual vibe right now, but for example, im sure the Riemann sum seems quite "trivial" to you (adding each 'segment' of a curve to get its area), but its application propelled calculus. | ||
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betaben
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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meeple
Canada10211 Posts
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Oracle
Canada411 Posts
On January 26 2010 06:23 {88}iNcontroL wrote: Yes and hopefully the discovery that the brain helps with playing games will propel our understanding of grand theft auto 4 "Yes and hopefully the discovery that you can add each individual segmented area under a curve to get the (shocking) entire area of the curve will propel our understanding of Calculus" It's just that easy... | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
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synapse
China13814 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10877 Posts
On January 26 2010 06:34 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: The study also tells us to have compassion for noobs - it's not their fault they suck, it's genetic. I don't know if that makes it better or worse... | ||
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Whiplash
United States2929 Posts
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
On January 26 2010 06:14 {88}iNcontroL wrote: Interesting.. so you are saying there is a link between how smart you are and how good you'd be at video games? Well fuck me sideways.. that is a tremendous breakthrough. I also read an article that said if you the ability to run fast you might do well in track. The article doesn't mention the word "smart", the study focuses on the mere size of certain portions in the brain. And no there isn't necessarily a correlation. | ||
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
This thread just became FUCKING AMAZING. GUYS.. the size of the brain had no correlation to how smart you are | ||
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..Slick...
United States202 Posts
On January 26 2010 06:14 {88}iNcontroL wrote: Interesting.. so you are saying there is a link between how smart you are and how good you'd be at video games? Well fuck me sideways.. that is a tremendous breakthrough. I also read an article that said if you the ability to run fast you might do well in track. Hahaha, good one incontrol. | ||
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Ghardo
Germany1685 Posts
you don't need to be ultra smart to play on the highest level in counter strike e.g. (at least not if you don't call tactics) whereas in starcraft i would be more tempted to think so (mind games etc. - not the raw skill). it's like saying you needed to be extremely clever to be good at sports which is also a generalization... in football/soccer there are such dumb asses but they're still the cream of the crop (oliver kahn, podolski come to mind). i suppose it depends on on how many levels the "sport" (or what it is) is being played. if you are for example a normal player in a counter strike team with 5 players and you don't call tacs there is no need to be intelligent as hell.. the same with being a football player. as a starcraft player i think it's more important because it's mostly 1on1 and you have to fulfill all functions by yourself (mechanics, tactics, mind games). | ||
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Gigaudas
Sweden1213 Posts
Who will stand up for Undisputed, the little guy? | ||
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number1gog
United States1081 Posts
On January 26 2010 06:55 {88}iNcontroL wrote: oh my bad. This thread just became FUCKING AMAZING. GUYS.. the size of the brain had no correlation to how smart you are Single-handedly covering the sarcasm base for all us sarcastic assholes. Keep it up! | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
On January 26 2010 06:55 {88}iNcontroL wrote: oh my bad. This thread just became FUCKING AMAZING. GUYS.. the size of the brain had no correlation to how smart you are Well not necessarily.  For instance they're mentioning that people with greater reward systems tend to succeed to a higher degree. We don't really know for certain in what way if any intelligence is linked to sizes of different portions of the brain. Although this study might indicate that (I don't know, I haven't read it.) | ||
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