Gamers are as good as bilinguals at solving mental problems
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Boing Boing: Gamers are as good as bilinguals at solving mental problems
Gamers are as good as bilinguals at solving mental problems Video gamers may have the same mental agility as bilingual people — an ability to swap out one task and bring another online quickly, which is useful in multitasking and is linked to lifelong mental acuity. A study at Toronto’s York University showed that gamers performed like bilinguals in hard mental tests, and that bilingual gamers were even better.
See! it’s good for you! 
Gaming — laura
