How can you tell if you’re a natural gaming pro? Researchers say they need look no further than your basal ganglia....
>>>How can you tell if you’re a natural gaming pro? Researchers say they need look no further than your basal ganglia.
Psychology professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said Thursday that they can now predict with what they call “unprecedented accuracy” a person’s skills at videogames and other complex tasks by first studying certain areas of their brains. The study, “Predicting Individual’s Learning Success From Patterns of Pre-Learning MRI Activity,” will be published in online journal PLoS One.
“Our data suggest that some persistent physiological and or neuroanatomical difference is actually the predictor of learning,” said University of Illinois psychology professor and research leader Art Kramer in a statement.
Excerpt above is from Chris Kohler's 'Researches Use MRI To Predict Your Gaming Prowess' from GAME | LIFE of Wired.com. Please click on the link below to read more about the issue.
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/01/mri-gaming/
