Your brain on video games | Daphne Bavelier
Your brain on video games | Daphne Bavelier
How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask.
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She’s totally ignoring the one thing about the brain that video games do: addiction. By constantly triggering huge amounts of dopamine rewards, video games become addictive to the point where it destroys the real life of people. Yes games in general are great for the brain, to some extent. But everything is about balance, and it’s not only a chocolate-coated broccoli I’m speaking about here, but rather the will of the gamer to use this tool in a responsible way.
They think they are old because most of children use their parents devices which is inevitable 🧠
Very interesting ted talk!
The brain… check mate atheists…
I can’t stand how slow she is talking , what is wrong with me lmao
Why do you need to develop a new game for the effects when mainstream action games are doing the trick? Sweat out a ranked fps and your brain will be sour
I have played for 11 hours in video games
I work in a hospital where I get regular complaints that patients can’t figure out how to use the elevator button to get up to my lab, or even that “the button was stolen” because it’s just a single round metal button in the usual place with no words or up/down triangles. I always think these people are somehow getting through real life when they wouldn’t be able to clear a tutorial level in any video game.
Playings games taught me geography better than school ever did… I grew more passionate of computers more than school could ever make me, theres way too many example
Video games saved me from suicide.
Enough said.
yes,my parents always like
do your homework.your future is getting darker because of vedio games
me – my ambision is be a esports player,so gamin is my future
finally an adult who respects video games
Good PR.
As a spiritual teacher, I encourage going to extremes…
Good point, bad examples
We must preserve this knowledge!
I love video games. But I only play them for 3 hours every 2 weeks. It’s not games that are the problem, it’s the way the system works.
Gaming is actually one of the best things you can do for your health…
“You have a brain”… scientists.. they think they are very smart but they are actually very funny to me
When I have sleep overs its 8 or 9 hours of video games
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gotta send this to my mom.
People that play video games are inherently stupid according to research done at Activision.
This was brilliant!
She has just ignored many other facts like how much time is wasted.
You know your a Chad when you play Minecraft and Pokemon
Video games are something that uses human nature to consume. Some scholars say that video games are beneficial. This is like letting your child take drugs. Of course, it is beneficial because the brain is highly concentrated at that time and can process greater information. Insidious American Expert
I can’t do the blue and yellow thing kids games T_T I feel ashamed, lol
Yeah I should play 15 hours a day
I started playing video game now I’m a game developer.
Parents: “turn off the game and do something more constructive”
Also parents: “watching news complaining about things they can’t control”
I browse the internet more than I play games.
Video games are the reason I don’t have a wife and kids by now. Video games are the main reason I’m an antisocial loser.
This lady doesn’t know what is actually really bad about video games.
Ok sure maybe I’m faster than a regular bloke, maybe I can see more details, but I don’t have a social skill to save my life.
amazing insights, solid work, great delivery
I play 16 hours in a week
Gaming is definitely good during developmental stages of life, in controlled amounts.
The point is that most grown-up dedicated gamers possibly don’t do anything productive most of the time, they are like hyper skilled lab rats, or like guinea pigs on wheels. What’s the point of developing boundary level expertise in detecting, tracking objects which possibly they won’t apply anywhere in their life, can’t they join the military instead, or play some challenging outdoor games ? Atleast their body will be in a good shape while having good focus, and reaction time. Why developing the mind at the cost of harming the body?
Possibly in real life they can express amazing range of ruthless vocabulary and emotions but can be thrashed up easily by an adolescent when it comes to a fight.
How do real time tactic players do on the following of multiple coat player units?
This was probably mostly watched by people over 60 years old.
Uh huh. As old as we both are. Why was it from 78-90 our parents,or at least some of our parents played? And then didn’t.
🙂
this video dosnt bring anything new to the table
There’s always a possibility that this lady had been bribed by videogame companies
I played gta v for 10 hours straight and now I’m a billionare from robbing a private island, it truly has an amazing impact on our life!
It’s basically just another way of escapism, a lot of that is going on now a days, people trying to escape from their life, maybe it’s time we take a look a society, and how it is making everyone so damn depressed and mentally sick, no one seems to be long term happy anymore, so people feed off dopamine hits, that will give them a quick high for a shot amount of time.
I showed this to my parents and my mom agreed and my dad who depises gaming kept his mouth shut and I was like "Yeah, that’s what I thought"
Me: mom I can’t go to the store
Mom: is because you wanna play that damn game
Me: 🤣🤣🤣
So, while listening to this talk on ATTENTION, I locked my truck with the keys inside and it still running! Oh the irony of life
I hope someone puts subtitles in brazillian portuguese here,so i can show this to my family
Most of you have a brain? What kind of idiot thinks this way. I guess she’s been told how brilliant she is all her life so she talks down to the rest of us.
Wine does not improve health. That myth was debunked years ago.