Could Playing "Call of Duty" Lead To A Successful Career?

Could Playing a first person shooter Lead To A Successful Career?

a recent review put together by researchers from the university of Rochester  found that action-oriented FPS (first person shooters) like COD (call of duty) and Halo may actually may actually help improve a person's cognitive functioning called visual attention. visual attention is tracking objects and labelling the importance of them. an example is driving and you see a kid playing by the road and a telephone pole, the kid is more important and unpredictable so its more important then the telephone pole. and the way FPS's help that is the tracking many objects at the same time. those in professions like a jet pilot and ground soldiers benefit from 'super-normal' visual attention. Laparoscopic surgeons have already been reported to benefit from video game training. they show shorter completion times and fewer errors. so FPS's may just benefit some in the future.


Read more: http://techland.com/2010/11/19/call-of-duty-may-lead-to-a-successful-career/#ixzz16hYSrp00