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Huffingtonpost posted:
World of Warcraft" isn't just for nerds and Mr. T -- it's also great for older folks.
TG Daily and other outlets have discovered a study in the journal Computers in Human Behavior that found older adults who played the online game saw their cognitive skills improve.
Researchers split 39 men and women between the ages of 60 and 77 into two groups. One group played "World of Warcraft" and the other didn't. Compared to the control group, some who played the game showed improved focus and spatial orientation.
The difference was especially clear amongst those who scored poorly before playing the game.
"We chose World of Warcraft because it has attributes we felt may produce benefits - it is a cognitively challenging game in a socially interactive environment that presents users with novel situations," Dr. Anne McLaughlin, an assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State and co-author of a paper on the study told TG Daily.
Unfortunately, Health News Daily notes that playing "World of Warcraft" didn't seem to help participants' memory.
This isn't the first time gaming has seemed to help older people. According to a survey by Saga, one in 25 people over the age of 50 play Nintendo's Wii Fit game, which could provide some fitness benefits (though the researchers from Michigan State University point out that the benefits are not as great as a traditional workout.)
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Hey everyone! All those WoW academic research papers DO pay off! LOL
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This just in...
Using your brain makes it work better!
More at 6...
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And exercise helps you lose weight!
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JaredKorry posted:
And exercise helps you lose weight!
That is not true at all, my friend has run all over Azeroth almost daily for years now and is still fat as hell.
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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
JaredKorry posted:
And exercise helps you lose weight!
That is not true at all, my friend has run all over Azeroth almost daily for years now and is still fat as hell.
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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
JaredKorry posted:
And exercise helps you lose weight!
That is not true at all, my friend has run all over Azeroth almost daily for years now and is still fat as hell.
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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
JaredKorry posted:
And exercise helps you lose weight!
That is not true at all, my friend has run all over Azeroth almost daily for years now and is still fat as hell.
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LOL Sure!
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weird...when i play WoW i feel myself getting dumber and dumber. might just be from the chat tho
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Quazimortal posted:
This just in...
Using your brain makes it work better!
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This is stunning. This could reshape the world as we know it. :o
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<img src="http://vnmedia.ign.com/wowvault.ign.com/images/news/news_cata.png" align="right"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/world-of-warcraft-cognitive-older-people_n_1300190.html">Huffingtonpost</a> posted:<br><blockquote> World of Warcraft" isn't just for nerds and Mr. T -- it's also great for older folks.<br><br>TG Daily and other outlets have discovered a study in the journal Computers in Human Behavior that found older adults who played the online game saw their cognitive skills improve.<br><br>Researchers split 39 men and women between the ages of 60 and 77 into two groups. One group played "World of Warcraft" and the other didn't. Compared to the control group, some who played the game showed improved focus and spatial orientation.<br><br>The difference was especially clear amongst those who scored poorly before playing the game.<br><br>"We chose World of Warcraft because it has attributes we felt may produce benefits - it is a cognitively challenging game in a socially interactive environment that presents users with novel situations," Dr. Anne McLaughlin, an assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State and co-author of a paper on the study told TG Daily.<br><br>Unfortunately, Health News Daily notes that playing "World of Warcraft" didn't seem to help participants' memory.<br><br>This isn't the first time gaming has seemed to help older people. According to a survey by Saga, one in 25 people over the age of 50 play Nintendo's Wii Fit game, which could provide some fitness benefits (though the researchers from Michigan State University point out that the benefits are not as great as a traditional workout.) </blockquote></font><br /><br />Posted from <a href="http://wowvault.ign.com">WoW Vault</a>
I call BS - they obviously didn't play very long because the level grinding gets boring and tiresome after just a few hours. You don't even have to think - it's just facroll across the keyboard...amirite? 
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I'm old and I've definitely noticed that since I play WoW, I can drive drunk just as well as I could 20 years ago. This is PROOF that the game helps with cognitive skills!
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