Playing 3D Computer Games has Redeeming Value After All!

We admit to being addicted to several 3D games and spend much more time playing them than we should. We tell our clucking spouse that it keeps our reflexes up to par in a quickly aging body, just in case. And you know what? We were right. Well, kind of...according to research conducted at Washington University in St. Louis. Gamers are faster at spotting things than non-gamers. While that makes sense to us, in the real world we have real trouble finding anything that's not where we usually put it. More... [Bill Fox]



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