The Economist * Why World of Warcraft is good for you * Sep 13th 2010, 15:40 by N.L. | LONDON VIDEO games have been blamed for the ills of the world. Parents worry that violent games make their children antisocial, violent, shallow, and obese, and are breeding a generation that cannot sustain their concentration. Screen time is routinely limited, much to the chagrin of their keyboard-pounding offspring. Help is at hand in the form of a new study from cognitive scientists at the University of Rochester. As we report in this week's issue <http://www.economist.com/node/17027825> of /The Economist/, this suggests that video gamers make faster and more accurate decisions. The work is published in /Current Biology/. What was particularly interesting was that the faster reaction times of the video gamers could be acquired by non-video gamers in 50 hours of training over a few weeks. But for the benefits to accrue, they had to play a particular sort of game. [...] Continua qui: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/09/praise_video_games