RACING GAMES

QUESTION

HYPOTHESIS:
IF SOMEONE PLAYS RACING GAMES ON AN AVERAGE BASIS THEN THEIR DRIVING SKILLS WILL IMPROVE.

What is considered driving skills?
Driving skills include: reaction time, decision making, and judgement making.

ACTION GAMING

STUDY LAYOUT

• One group playing action games
• Control group playing puzzle games
• Consists of 10 hr of playtime
• Brain activity measured at the end
• *driving games are considered action games

Final Results
Subjects who played action games had much more brain activity and much stronger attention skills.

Action gamers make better drivers, soliders, and surgeons

STUDY LAYOUT

• No description given
• Collective data from many scientists

RESULTS

• Helps make split second decisions
• More accurate thinking
• Faster brain processes

REWIRING THE BRAIN

TESTING

• Subject group 1 played action games
• Subject group 2 played no games
• Afterwards a test was given
• Test was geared to identifying tracking and locating objects

Results
Tests showed that action gamers were prone to improvements up to 50% in said categories

GAME ON PEOPLE

TESTING FORMAT

• 18-25 year olds
• Played video games 30-60 min a day
• Test lasted 20 days
• Subjectd were tested against puzzle gamers

RESULTS

• Action gamers were 25% better at making decisions
• Action gamers were also much quicker at making decisions
• Puzzle gamers made no measurable improvement

DRIVING SCHOOL

FINAL ARTICLE

• No testing was done
• Data was gathered from other scientists

RESULTS

• This driving school recommends gaming
• Their research has shown that it improves driving skills
• Action gamers evaluated information much faster

Conclusion
Action gaming improves many cognitive skills and shows benefits in multiple areas. But one of these areas is driving.

VARIABLES

• Independant: playing action games
• Dependant: driving skills

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