玩游戲并非玩物喪志！電子游戲有助于提升孩子的記憶

Video gaming as a child related to improvements in memory

兒童時(shí)期玩電子游戲有助于提高記憶力

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A new study exploring the link between video games and cognition finds that playing video games as a child can improve a person’s working memory years later on specific tasks.

一項(xiàng)探索電子游戲和認(rèn)知之間聯(lián)系的新研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，在兒童時(shí)期玩電子游戲可以提高一個(gè)人多年后在特定任務(wù)上的工作記憶。

A number of studies have shown playing video games can lead to structural changes in the brain, including increasing the size of some regions, or to functional changes, such as activating areas responsible for attention or visual-spatial skills.

大量研究表明，玩電子游戲會(huì)導(dǎo)致腦結(jié)構(gòu)變化，包括增加某些區(qū)域的大小，或?qū)е麓竽X產(chǎn)生功能性改變，如激活負(fù)責(zé)注意力或視覺(jué)空間技能的區(qū)域。

New research from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya has gone further, showing how cognitive changes can take place even years after people stop playing.

加泰羅尼亞歐貝塔大學(xué)的最新研究進(jìn)一步表明，即使不玩游戲好多年后，其導(dǎo)致的認(rèn)知變化也會(huì)發(fā)生。

This is one of the conclusions of the article, published in "Frontiers in Human Neuroscience".

這是一篇發(fā)表在《人類神經(jīng)科學(xué)前沿》上的論文得出的一個(gè)結(jié)論。

According to Marc Palaus, the author of the study, what most video games have in common are elements that make people want to continue playing, and that they gradually get harder and present a constant challenge.

論文作者馬克·帕勞斯表示，游戲的最大共同點(diǎn)是，它們包含使人們想要玩下去的元素，而且逐漸變得越來(lái)越難，并提出了持續(xù)的挑戰(zhàn)。

"These two things are enough to make it an attractive and motivating activity, which, in turn, requires constant and intense use of our brain's resources. Video games are a perfect recipe for strengthening our cognitive skills, almost without our noticing," he said.

“這兩件事足以使它具有吸引力和激勵(lì)性，反過(guò)來(lái)又需要不斷地高強(qiáng)度地使用我們的大腦資源。”帕勞斯指出：“電子游戲是增強(qiáng)我們認(rèn)知能力的完美秘訣，潛移默化地發(fā)揮著作用。”