Video games and brain
It is the summer holidays and like every vacation, there are those who change their environment and others who prefer to stay in their little cocoon. But for this second category, time may seem a bit long, except for those who take care of playing video games.
A brain response named “p300-ce”
To realize it, researchers from Salk Institute for Biological Studies, A global renowned scientific research center located in California called on 200 people. The latter, whose brain activity was measured, have been to play at different games, whether Flappy Bird, Space Escape Or a game whose goal is to remove the teeth from a small plastic crocodile without being bitten.
In the three games, scientists have noticed that the brain of the participants triggers a brain activity called P300-CE, whose “CE” means ” Critical Event “, Or critical event in French, and the” 300 “with the number of milliseconds that it takes to the brain to trigger it after a stimuli (300 milliseconds).
One of the reasons for addiction to video games?
For example, in the famous mobile game where you have to control a bird and pass it between two pipes without it touching them, this signal was systematically triggered when the volatile strikes an obstacle. If this observation surprised the researchers, it is because the signal is also triggered in the real one, and for identical reasons.
The brain therefore does not seem to differentiate a fictitious and real threat, which would be one of the explanations of addiction to video games according to the researchers.“Well-made game mechanics can simulate semi-realistic scenarios that activate the neural system by deceiving the brain. This could be one of the factors behind the highly engaging and addictive nature of the games, which are a vast subject of research ”,they said in the study.
Source: Ouest France
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