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Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - SEAmapler - 2011-01-14
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How can you tell if youre a natural gaming pro? Researchers say they need look no further than your basal ganglia.
Psychology professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said Thursday that they can now predict with what they call unprecedented accuracy a persons skills at videogames and other complex tasks by first studying certain areas of their brains. The study, Predicting Individuals Learning Success From Patterns of Pre-Learning MRI Activity, will be published in online journal PLoS One.
Our data suggest that some persistent physiological and or neuroanatomical difference is actually the predictor of learning, said University of Illinois psychology professor and research leader Art Kramer in a statement.
The researchers first found subjects who had not previously spent much time playing videogames. Then, they imaged their brains with MRI scans before having them play a videogame called Space Fortress, developed by the university.
This was the game used in last years study, by some of the same researchers, that first showed the [URL="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/01/brain-size-gaming-skills/"]correlation between brain size and game aptitude
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At that time, the research showed that nearly a quarter of the difference in performance among players could be predicted by the size of brain parts like the nucleus accumbens and putamen. Today, with more-refined techniques, the scientists say that number is between 55 percent and 68 percent.
We find variations among participants in the patterns of brain activity in their basal ganglia, Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, an Ohio State University psychology professor who led the design of the experiment, said in a statement Thursday. Powerful statistical algorithms allow us to connect these patterns to individual learning success.
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Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Tay - 2011-01-14
I can forsee Korea starcraft teams starting to do this to select their team players.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - FrozNlite - 2011-01-14
Tay Wrote:I can forsee Korea starcraft teams starting to do this to select their team players.
This. It'll be the preliminary audition.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Anonymous Moose - 2011-01-14
I hate to burst your bubble, but it isnt practical to scan everyone's brain simply to estimate their gaming abilities. The machines alone cost over a million dollars, and hospitals charge between $1000 and $4000 for one scan.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Beloved - 2011-01-14
I dont know about Korea, but in the 2 pvp mmorpg games ive played, it's usually the chinese/malaysians that've got the most pimped up gear as compared to the north americans. The mass majority of them use cash to beef up their characters, too. In other words, if the technology catches on, china will likely adopt - and these kids likely wont have an issue dishing out 1-4k, be it in euro or USD.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Worthyness - 2011-01-14
Tay Wrote:I can forsee Korea starcraft teams starting to do this to select their team players.
WINNER!
You don't has good brain. I don't care if you has good APM, MRI DO NOT TELL THE LIES!
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - FanaticRat - 2011-01-14
Interesting study but I find the title very misleading. For one, they only tested it with one basic videogame--this space fortress game--which appears to be in the style of an old arcade SHUMP, which, while a videogame, can in no way account for all the various types of video games we have (FPSes, RPGs and MMORPGs, all kinds of platformers, adventure games, rhythm games, sports games, puzzle games, tower defense, heck even a lot of other SHUMPS, not to mention all the amalgamations of genres). Second, they tested it with 39 adult subjects yet they do not mention their ages--children and young adults it seems are more likely to play various types of videogames than older people which require different skills and tactics than "casual" games that more people play such as those facebook games and whatnot.
Still, it's an interesting result. I have to wonder if what they're really measuring is not so much videogame prowess but something else and more basic, such as hand-eye coordination, attention, reflex, quick planning, and so forth. I'd love to read the actual research paper with their methods, selection criteria, and results rather than a secondhand article though.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - JoeTang - 2011-01-14
We can observe Nada's brain instead of just his body? Hot damn.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Hazzy - 2011-01-14
Anonymous Moose Wrote:I hate to burst your bubble, but it isnt practical to scan everyone's brain simply to estimate their gaming abilities. The machines alone cost over a million dollars, and hospitals charge between $1000 and $4000 for one scan.
SC2 is Korea's NFL. Your point is mute.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Anonymous Moose - 2011-01-14
Hazzy Wrote:SC2 is Korea's NFL. Your point is mute.
Complete with excessive commercial interuptions that take up 90% of the screen time?
And no, my point is valid. There is no reason to spend so much money to scan your brain when your track record is far more accurate.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Hazzy - 2011-01-14
Anonymous Moose Wrote:Complete with excessive commercial interuptions that take up 90% of the screen time?
And no, my point is valid. There is no reason to spend so much money to scan your brain when your track record is far more accurate.
SC2 is huge. The NFL is huge. There is no shortage of funds for these things. They are not spending "so much money", relative to what they already spend. Using a brain scan to literally make an image of how well you can game is just another criteria to make the entire thing more competitive.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Anonymous Moose - 2011-01-14
This wont enhance competition at all. Everyone even worth spending a few thousand to give an MRI to for this test will already have a far more accurate track record. Then on top of that, sports arent about medical tests. They are about two or more individuals clashing together in a competition of intelligence, strength, and/or endurance.
The only real practical application these tests have is in learning about how the brain functions.
Researchers Use MRI to Predict Your Gaming Prowess - Erebus - 2011-01-14
I'm curious as to how accurate this thing is...
- Is it a measure of overall potential?
- How specific is it (like can a person who scores high on this just sweep all games or just ones the NRI test for)