] And now, the news that every parent dreads. Researchers
] are reporting today that first-person-shooter video games
] -the kind that require players to kill or maim
] enemies or monsters that pop out of nowhere -
] sharply improve visual attention skills.

Researchers are reporting today that first-person-shooter video games -- the kind that require players to kill or maim enemies or monsters that pop out of nowhere -- sharply improve visual attention skills.

] Experienced players of these games are 30 percent to 50
] percent better than nonplayers at taking in everything
] that happens around them, according to the research, which
] appears today in the journal Nature. They identify objects
] in their peripheral vision, perceiving numerous objects
] without having to count them, switch attention rapidly
] and track many items at once.

I knew all that Grand Theft Auto playing would pay off.

] The professor and her student decided to study the
] connection between video game playing and visual
] attention. They carried out four experiments on
] undergraduates, all of them male because no female
] shooter game fans could be found on campus.

Haha..