Gaming Helps Keep the Brain Young

scar3crow · Post by **scar3crow** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 07:33 pm

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... ience/home

Apparently people who game regularly, or speak more than one language fluently, benefit from this alternation and selection effect. Apparently people who do both are nigh unstoppable!

I shouldnt have dropped German!

Daedalus · Post by **Daedalus** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 07:34 pm

Looks like I have the best of both!

scirmast · Post by **scirmast** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:41 pm

Didn't know gaming would also contribute to this effect (two languages surely do).

Well, I think I must start speaking english more.

Lizzy · Post by **Lizzy** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:46 am

Good thing i speak spanish

, too bad i haven't played a game in ages

.

RedFanatic · Post by **RedFanatic** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 03:20 am

What! noooooo Lizzy you must play games

don't go cold turkey

also who could doubt that games are in fact really good for you

r_cain · Post by **r_cain** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 01:59 pm

hmm, does c++ count as 2nd language?

Post by **DustyStyx** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 03:18 pm

r_cain wrote:hmm, does c++ count as 2nd language?

... and if not how about Assembler?

I ought to pickup on my Mandarin again... Ni Hao Ma?

Lizzy · Post by **Lizzy** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 03:34 pm

Bien todo depende, quizás debo volver a colina silenciosa 4, or i could change to doom. Haven't played that for some time now

da_weezle · Post by **da_weezle** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 09:13 pm

Ik kan zeggen dat ik Nederlands ken, und Deutsch, et Français, and English. Not much gaming anymore these days though.

RedFanatic · Post by **RedFanatic** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 09:41 pm

I plan to learn spanish quite soon, and would love a shot at learning
dutch or german.

but i do play an awesome amount of games so perhaps it equals out

mouth · Post by **mouth** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:07 pm

oh yeah! WE ALL ROCK!

Necrosis · Post by **Necrosis** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:22 pm

I soooo want to learn Japanese. Fear my Japan obsession.

Lizzy · Post by **Lizzy** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:35 pm

I would rather learn Polish, it just sounds so cool

i know all there is to spanish, its not even my natural language but polish owns me lol.

boss429 · Post by **boss429** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:56 pm

If you learn the cultist language it would count for gaming and a secound language

RedFanatic · Post by **RedFanatic** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 03:12 am

Yep necro you in a comono scares me

*start writing a poem in polish*