is it true that playing video games betters your hand/eye coordination?

Question

does that make you a better driver?
is it the same with being a surgeon?
i got this information from popular science magazine, but i am not sure it is true.
please answer with the utmost intelligence.

Answer 1

Any hand / eye games or things you do to incorporate more than one part of your senses will better you. Whether it makes you a better driver or surgeon is based only on if you are also intelligent and creative enough to achieve that level of learning. Your coordination is controled by your brain and so is your level of learning, but there is a key factor involved that has nothing to do with coordination or your brain's ability to learn and that is your desire to master that profession or activity, whether it be driving a car or saving a life. Nothing or no one can put the 'desire' to achieve and be a success at what you do into you no matter how many video games you play or what ever task you take on. You can be the best driver in the world or the worst all depending on how you tackle life inside of you with the desire to be a success at it or just do enough to get by. One thing to think about while pursuing this is to remember that there is a balance to everything. Too much of one thing or too little of another can cause other situations to arise. For example, while you are mastering your coordination with the video, remember that too much staring at a tv or computer screen will cause eye problems that will worsen your vision with age. Also, there are people with major handicaps out there too who have mastered things that others haven't which proves that it's not what you have but who you are inside that will ultimately make the difference on success or failure. Hope that helps.

Answer 2

No.
Video games CAN develop 'visual pattern recognition,' however, it is not the infinite variety of fine pattern recognition that any real-life skill like surgery or driving requires.

Drivers in real life must have good vestibular feedback. Video games do not provide that. Even the most sophisticated flight simulators cannot accurately emulate all the nuances of real flight. The same is exponentially more true for cheap home video games.

There is another, often overlooked psychological element here too. Driving a virtual car where there is no danger of real pain does not prepare a driver for the mental acuity and survival sense he needs for real driving. The same is true for landing a virtual plane or operating.

Certain emerging "cyber knife" technologies CAN in fact improve the surgeon's skill. But that does NOT come from the purely video game-like aspect. The increase in accuracy and safety in cyber-knife surgery comes from the super accurate digital control and microscopic precision of the operating motors.

Most surgeries are still best performed by real surgeons in a real operating theater.

Additionally, there is the "human experience" and "intuitive" nature of real motor skills that no computer can emulate so far.

Surgeons must have "adaptive fine motor skills" Those can be developed by playing musical instruments, especially violin or cello.

Popular science is the same magazine that perpetrates myths about the World Trade Center's bombing, (they call it a collapse and provided pseudo scientific BS as so-called evidence)

Pop Sci glorifies war machines and the technology of death.
It is a government foil; a purveyor of propaganda...
NOT a reliable news magazine.

Answer 3

These things may be true but video games also hurt your eyes... and your intelligence. If you want to learn better hand-eye coordination buy 3 ant-stress balls for a buck apiece and learn how to juggle. Studies have shown jugglers read faster too, along with better coordination. And maybe better hand-eye coordination helps with driving, but I suggest practice, experience, a sobriety. As for being a surgeon? Buy the kids game, I honestly think that will help better than video games. Except for maybe the video game they're giving to cancer kids that teaches you about cancer. ( Your an immune system soldier or something killing cancer cells ) Learn how to juggle is my final answer.

Answer 4

Yes, that is true. That's why the best surgeons are said to be males who were video game addicts when they were younger. ( just make sure that if you are addicted to video games, that you keep in touch with the real world too, and get plenty of exercise.)

Answer 5

better driver? not if you're playing racing games
being a surgeon? no because you're not relying on THAT much accuracy

Hand eye coordination yes.. you learn to separate your site and your touch and use them independently as well as together. Although over time, video games slow down your metabolism ;)

Answer 6

I have a 4 year old grandson that can beat Lego's Star Wars. You bet it does.

Answer 7

i've heard it on the news and from other places many times. so yes.

~health_freak.com

Answer 8

yes but it also does much more damage than help

Answer 9

yup

Answer 10

i read it too and maybe there is some truth to it!