What are the benefits of Tetris?
It's one of the world's most simple computer games - but, as a new report suggests, there could be more to Tetris than the idle act of fitting blocks together on a computer screen.
How games change your brain
This graphic shows areas of the brain that functioned more efficiently after three
months of video-game practice (blue) as well as areas where the cortex became
thicker (red). The left and right views show the left and right brain hemispheres.
The researchers analyzed the brain changes in the game-playing group compared with the control group, and they found that the Tetris players' brain function became more efficient in areas linked to critical thinking, reasoning, language and information processing - just as Haier found in 1992. They also discovered that the cortex became thicker - just as the German researchers had discovered. The only problem was ... they weren't the same areas.
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