Online Brain Games Help in Multi-Tasking at Old Age
Online brain games are not only
useful for the young but it can help people in the 70's and 80's to do
multi-tasking as much as those in the early 20's , according to a study done by
University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Our brain can be trained to
improve performance even at an old age using gaming even at an old age,
according to Mark Steyvers, a UCI professor. The study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underscore the cognitive cost
of multitasking,which dilutes function by splitting focus, as well as the ways
in which people across the lifespan can overcome the brain drain brought on by
both the increasingly cluttered multimedia environment and the natural aging
process.
In an analysis of 1000 users
who played online games between 2012 and 2017 in the age group of 20-80, it was
found that older players were able to match or exceed the performance of the
youngsters. The players in 21-30 age group had declining performances after 10
practice sessions.
The human lifespan have
increased due to technological and medical advances. Hence, it is important
that their cognitive functioning is also healthy till old age and hence the
importance of such gaming techniques.
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