Research shows that video games are very useful for surgeons

Not only is it a time-consuming hobby, video games are very helpful in increasing your hand-eye coordination.

With its growing popularity, video games are no longer confined to teenagers. Despite prejudices about violence, its effects on the visual or neurological system, or merely a time-consuming vain pleas, the positive effects of video games is undeniable. There has been a lot of research about the impact of video games on players, and these are completely negative claims that they are only for lazy kids who just want to escape from the pile of exercises. go home.

Video games are very useful in increasing hand-eye coordination.

Among the positive effects of video games for players, the impact on eye-hand coordination is the most studied effect. In 2014, researchers at the University of Toronto conducted two tests on two groups of subjects: a group of gamers, who regularly play first-person shooter games within the last 6 months. over, and the target audience is not gamers, players who have little or no playing in the past 2 years.

In the first test, they were given a computer mouse to hold the object in the middle of a moving target. Researchers found that both groups had very poor expressions at the beginning, but the group of gamers quickly had improvements, and had better performance in shorter time periods. compared to non-gamers. This shows that gamers have no advantage when starting the learning process and experience new hand-eye coordination, but they get used to and master them faster.

In the second experiment, instead of moving constantly objects will appear randomly on the computer screen. In this test, the results are the same in both groups. This shows that the ability to perform hand-eye coordination operations is the same in both groups of subjects, but the target group of gamers has a faster and better learning and skill development than the target group must be a gamer.

Experience on video games really helps improve endoscopic surgical skills.

Another study conducted in 2014 also showed interesting discoveries. Adolescents who have experienced many games show an increase in cortical thickness on certain areas of the brain. This means that the density of brain cells in those areas is higher and more nerve connections. One of those areas is the left frontal cortex. This is the area that helps us make complex decisions and store some memory functions, or the left eye area, which helps to stimulate and trigger eye-coordination skills.

Another study conducted in 2007 showed that video game experiences actually helped improve endoscopic surgical skills, and another 2013 study showed that surgeons were started. Heating with some video games before entering surgery will perform that surgery faster and make fewer mistakes.

So if someone thinks that your gaming hobby is just a waste of time no less, tell them that you are actually training your skills to become a surgeon in the future. not far away.