The human brain contains billions of nerves that link it to various body parts making it the most complex body organ. It supports proper functioning of muscles in doing body movements, and administers the development of various areas of human life.
For nearly all life stages, it was proven that the female brain is 10% smaller compared with male brain. When people reach age six, the brain is 95% as big as an adult brain. However, these sizes tell nothing on how developed the brain is. Though a six-year old child can have as big a brain as a full-grown adult, it does not mean that the child has the same level of thinking as the adult. Brain development peaks during puberty stage.
Most brain cells are to be hard-wired for sports activities if a person engaged in athletics during adolescence. The same goes for music and academics. But video games seem to be the most prevalent activity for adolescents during this stage.
Several researches were already done regarding the relationship of video games and brain development. In early studies done during 1980s, only minimal correlations were found, and most have contradicting results. Its outcomes may be of less help for that time, but it enabled modern studies to have more useful results.
Recent Japanese studies revealed that video games can greatly develop only certain brain portion. Those portions are greatly responsible for vision and movement. The frontal lobe, largest area of the brain responsible for emotional and intellectual development, was left behind.
Through digital imaging techniques, researchers were able to see brain portions being used in real-time. During the research, two groups were formed, The first is to play video games while the other is to take continuous adding of single digits for some time, known as the Kraepelin test. Brain usage of the first group was seen only in areas concerning vision and movement. Though only the left hemisphere is needed for mathematical thinking, the other group also exhibited brain usage even in right hemisphere, the area responsible for creativity.
Additional research showed that numerical thinking is more beneficial than music. Reading was also observed to have brain usage for the frontal lobe.
Brain cells might have poor quality as the person gets older if the frontal lobe will be given minimal usage during its development peak in adolescence stage. Recent observations caused the worry of underperformance in intellectual aspect for the next generation. This is the most dreaded scenario by the researchers.
Reactions were given by common gamers and students alike regarding the study. For example, the study did not specify the game genre used in research. Tactical and strategy games that require multi-tasking capabilities might require more than vision and movement skills. Some interesting games to study might be halo odst for sale or used street fighter iv. To find out what games are the best for different types of skills you can use video gamer as a reference. For some gamers, they were still able to perform good in academics while maintaining their gaming skills and activities, while the effects of video games seem to affect emotional areas of some gamers. For such cases, this study might have opened another interesting topic about games - its effect on emotional development.