After about a month, the researchers tested the volunteers. They looked at how well the study participants did when the game was just racing the car. They compared it to how the participants did when the second task of reading signs was added.
Adam Gazzaley was the lead investigator. He says there was a striking improvement in multi-tasking ability among the adults who played three times a week.
“Before training, they had a 65 percent drop in performance when they do the two tasks versus one task. After training, they only have a 16 percent drop in performance. And that’s better than the 20 year-olds that had a performance drop in the 27 percent range.”
Adam Gazzaley says there was one especially striking finding. He says the volunteers’ strengthened brain power continued for six months. And he says it was useful in other mental areas, like attentiveness and memory.
“…like sustained attention, which is vigilance, ability to hold your attention to something that’s very boring and respond to it rapidly and accurately, that that improved selectively in this group. And also working memory, their ability to hold something in mind for a short period of time and then be able to respond to it rapidly and accurately…that also improved.”
The researcher says he would not urge senior citizens go buy any one video game currently selling in stores. But he says it is possible some target shooting games could help seniors in ways similar to NeuroRacer. And Mr. Gazzaley says his team is working on developing more video games for people suffering from depression and attention deficit disorder.
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