NTU Study Reveals Bejeweled May Boost Cognitive Skills – Another reason to play it?
Guess what I’ve received in my email? A media release with regard to a Nanyang Technological University (NTU) research study on on Bejeweled 2!
According to a a ten-month study done by NTU on Bejeweled 2 released on 9 June 2010, the subjects’ response time and attention to details improved after playing the video game for ten hours in one week.
Over the course of ten months, psychology major students from NTU’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences were randomly recruited to participate – declaring that they had never played Bejeweled and did not play action video games on a regular basis.
This study was to examine whether playing 10 hours of Bejeweled 2 in a week would result in superior cognitive abilities, including selective attention, executive planning, and visual spatial resolution – compared to playing Pet Society, which is a neutral social networking game hosted by Facebook.
Participants were asked to take the same set of cognitive tests before and after the 10-hour game playing session. Results showed that those who played Bejeweled 2 improved in their cognitive tests performance compared to the control group. These Bejeweled players were able to ignore irrelevant distracters that clutter their visual environment better than their Pet Society player counterparts – translating into improved visual attention and spatial acuity.
So, another reason to play Bejeweled 2?
where did you get this piece of information? share it with me!!
anyway i think the sample size is so small because… the RP pool is dwindling..
they always have a hard time looking for participants for studies.. but do share the research with me please!
I email you tomorrow?