电子游戏有益于视觉技能

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电子游戏近来备受指责,一些人认为它们会引发暴力和助长久坐不动的生活方式。现在一项新研究的结果表明,花费大量时间玩《侠盗猎车手3》、《光环》和其他动作类游戏可能有一些积极的影响。《自然》杂志的 researchers 今天报告说,这项活动可以提高与注意力相关的视觉技能。

通过一系列实验,罗切斯特大学的 C. Shawn Green 和 Daphne Bavelier 确定,与非玩家相比,习惯性电子游戏玩家更能够专注于视觉上复杂的情况,同时跟踪多个项目并处理快速变化的信息。为了排除他们的结果仅仅反映了游戏玩家天生具有优越视觉技能的倾向的可能性,该团队对非游戏玩家进行了动作视频游戏训练,让他们每天玩一小时《荣誉勋章》,连续 10 天。与此同时,对照组接受了《俄罗斯方块》的训练,与《荣誉勋章》不同,《俄罗斯方块》一次只需要专注于单个物体。在短暂的训练期后,《荣誉勋章》组表现出视觉技能的提高。

作者总结说:“通过迫使玩家同时兼顾多项不同的任务(检测新敌人、跟踪现有敌人并避免受伤等),动作视频游戏玩法突破了视觉注意力的三个相当不同方面的极限。” 他们补充说:“虽然玩电子游戏可能看起来相当无意识,但它能够从根本上改变视觉注意力处理。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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