Video Gaming Prepares Brain for Bigger Tasks

The brain is a thing that science hardly is able to understand but each and every day, month, and year we learn a little more and more. Video games are know being studied on their effects on the brain and now it is learned that people who play video games are actually a lot more advanced in visuomotor tasks than those who do not play video games. Visuomotor tasks are tasks that basically use hand eye coordination. The act that playing video games can make you a better neurosurgeon one day then not playing video games is a unique phenomenon. This gives a reason, albeit not the best one for children to be allowed to sit in front of their television set all day and play video games. Obesity as well as personal isolation still may be concerns with playing video games to long as well as some mental problems however the increasing in hand eye coordination is a good thing. In a personal experience I always have noticed better hand eye coordination than others who were not gamers I just thought it was a gift that I had. It helped me greatly in my sporting events such as catching passes and hitting baseballs. It is outstanding now to know that all that video game playing I have done in my past could be the cause to contribute to my great hand eye coordination. It also can be used to find clues about what causes Alzheimer disease as in Alzheimer's patients they have deteriorated hand eye coordination. Technology these days have gone a long way and understanding video games as well as other technological media I am sure is something that will be studied for years to come.