Older people who play video games challenging their mental processing
speed could delay the ageing of their minds, a new study has found.
According
to the study from the University of Iowa, researchers found that
elderly people who played just ten hours of a game priming their mental
processing speed and skills, delayed declines by as many as seven years
in a range of cognitive skills.
"We know that we can stop this decline and actually restore cognitive
processing speed to people," Fredric Wolinsky, professor in the UI
College of Public Health and lead author on the paper said.
"So, if we know that, shouldn`t we be helping people? It`s fairly easy,
and older folks can go get the training game and play it," he said.
The
study comes amidst a burst of research examining why, as we age, our
minds gradually lose "executive function," generally considered mission
control for critical mental activities, such as memory, attention,
perception and problem solving.
The study is published in the journal PLOS One.
Source : Zee News , 2nd May 2013
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