i play video games everyday for about three to four hours
2007-02-13 15:25:20 · 5 answers · asked by hacker_lexy 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
By Reuters
Published: February 7, 2007, 6:12 AM PST
Video game addicts, rejoice: U.S. researchers have found that playing is actually good for your eyes, and despite all those dire warnings from your parents, it won't make you blind.
A study by the University of Rochester showed that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved their vision by about 20 percent.
"Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences, said in the study published on the university's Web site on Tuesday.
"These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
Bavelier and a graduate student tested college students who had played very few, if any, video games in the last year.
Test subjects were given an eye test similar to the one used at regular eye clinics and then divided into two groups--one played shoot-'em-up action games for an hour a day while the control group played a less visually complex game.
Their vision was tested after the study, with those who played the action game scoring better in the eye test.
The researchers said their findings could help patients with several types of visual defects.
Funny how some people (stallone_sal) edit their answer after I put my information on.
2007-02-13 15:38:13 · answer #1 · answered by crowfeathers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It doesn't and will not damage your eyes, nor does sitting too close to the television set. The only thing that a video game can hurt is if you are prone to seizure activity as I am. The fast flicker of the screen can send some people into one. My own computer screen can do it. I have it set so that it doesn't send out a flicker to my eyes. As a matter of fact my neurologist recommends video games and keyboards to some stroke patients ( I am a stroke survivor) because they help with hand / eye co-ordination!
2007-02-13 15:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know that but frequent playing with eyes damage video games
on the contradictory it improves ur eye sight and your reflexes,seriously!
2007-02-13 15:35:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only if you sit too close to the tv
2007-02-13 15:41:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋