More interesting Brain News
As you probably know, I'm always interested in cognitive science stuff that deals with how people learn. Games are always about learning: learning patterns, learning strategies, learning controls, learning interfaces. Here are a couple of new articles.
This one deals with how young teens have a hard time multi-tasking. While that may be, I think the related ability this gives teens is an unswerving focus which makes them the most feared players on earth.
This other study talks about how people with more knowledge about a class of subjects have a harder time remembering specific individuals of that class than those people who know nothing of that class. For instance, people who have been around cats will find it harder to remember specific details about a new cat than a person who has never seen one before. This is interesting because it makes a good challenge. Memory tests about the specific details of an animal can be made harder by exposing the player to a lot of those animals beforehand.
This one deals with how young teens have a hard time multi-tasking. While that may be, I think the related ability this gives teens is an unswerving focus which makes them the most feared players on earth.
This other study talks about how people with more knowledge about a class of subjects have a harder time remembering specific individuals of that class than those people who know nothing of that class. For instance, people who have been around cats will find it harder to remember specific details about a new cat than a person who has never seen one before. This is interesting because it makes a good challenge. Memory tests about the specific details of an animal can be made harder by exposing the player to a lot of those animals beforehand.
