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Undisputed-
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States379 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-26 21:08:55
January 25 2010 21:05 GMT
#1
Interesting article

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
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
January 25 2010 21:14 GMT
#2
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.
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
January 25 2010 21:17 GMT
#3
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.

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Oracle
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada411 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-25 21:19:14
January 25 2010 21:18 GMT
#4
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.
betaben
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
681 Posts
January 25 2010 21:22 GMT
#5
sounds as if there's a correlation between brain size and ability too - ie people with less 'matter' do worse, there is not an option for them to have "less matter but more organised neurons".
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
January 25 2010 21:23 GMT
#6
Yes and hopefully the discovery that the brain helps with playing games will propel our understanding of grand theft auto 4
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 25 2010 21:25 GMT
#7
I'm not quite sure how big of a discovery this really is...
Oracle
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada411 Posts
January 25 2010 21:26 GMT
#8
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
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21245 Posts
January 25 2010 21:34 GMT
#9
The study also tells us to have compassion for noobs - it's not their fault they suck, it's genetic.
TranslatorBaa!
Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
January 25 2010 21:42 GMT
#10
So SC players are the master race of humans? Tell me something I don't know.
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
January 25 2010 21:43 GMT
#11
So women are missing parts of their brains :D?
:)
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10908 Posts
January 25 2010 21:44 GMT
#12
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...
Whiplash
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States2929 Posts
January 25 2010 21:53 GMT
#13
I always figured Starcraft players were smarter then the average gamer.
Cinematographer / Steadicam Operator. Former Starcraft commentator/player
hifriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
China7935 Posts
January 25 2010 21:54 GMT
#14
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.
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
January 25 2010 21:55 GMT
#15
oh my bad.

This thread just became FUCKING AMAZING.

GUYS.. the size of the brain had no correlation to how smart you are
..Slick...
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States202 Posts
January 25 2010 21:56 GMT
#16
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.
it was written
Ghardo
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Germany1685 Posts
January 25 2010 21:58 GMT
#17
haven't read the article but i if they see a connection between being smart and being good at video games then it's a generalization.

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).
Gigaudas
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Sweden1213 Posts
January 25 2010 21:58 GMT
#18
iNcontroL using his popularity, influence and terrible wit to derail yet another thread?

Who will stand up for Undisputed, the little guy?
I
number1gog
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1081 Posts
January 25 2010 22:01 GMT
#19
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!
5sz6sz7sz1a2a3a4a kwanrollllllled
hifriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
China7935 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-25 22:03:17
January 25 2010 22:01 GMT
#20
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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