Week 3--Your Brain on Video Games

3 things you learned:

1.       90 percent of children play video games

2.       Average age of a gamer is 33 years old

3.       People who don’t play a lot of games, or spend time in front of a screen, have normal vision, but those who spend 5-20 hours a week on a game have better vision by:

a.       Resolving small detail in the context of clutter

b.      Resolving different levels of grade

2 things you agree or disagree with:

1.       Agree

a.       Playing video games days in and days out are not good for your health; binging is never good.

2.       Agree

a.       Not all media is created equal. Some aspects of video games are good for vision, learning, attention, etc.

1 question you have:

1.       I would like to know about the games they are making for people who have poor vision, and how it will help them better their eyesight. I would like to see the research on it improving eyesight.