Zokk wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
Where's that study that claimed that video games don't increase cognitive capacity?
I'd hardly attribute this success to the fact that they're gamers. Give the same problem to a group of children, and you'd probably get the same result, eventually. It was a spatial-reasoning problem, not necessarily a design or intellectual one. Like stated in the article, humans are good at spatial reasoning, computers aren't.
However, depending on kind of game it is, there are studies that show that video games do actually enhance certain mental abilities when you're kid and your brain is still developing. For example, action games tend to enhance reflexes with eye hand coordination while puzzle games can enhance other cognitive abilities such as spacial abilities if the game requires you to solve a spacial type of puzzle. So, it seems natural to me that gamers, especially the ones who have been gaming since they were kids, may be able to intuitively solve something like this while some other people can't.