Max
06-20-2008, 10:30 PM
Video games come with male territory
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Douglas Rankine
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } He can otherwise be the perfectly articulate gent, but put your average bloke next to a games console and he becomes transfigured - Man becomes Caveman. Such are the findings of recent research in which brain activity was analysed while participants played video games.
In what must have been a nightmare of wiring, scientists at Stanford University rigged up participants to an MRI scanner while they played a specially designed game, the object being to make the most gains in territory.
The study revealed differences in motivation between the sexes. In male subjects, this brain activity increased as territory was accumulated. Writing in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the report's author, Dr Allan Reiss, concluded: “It's fair to say that males tend to be more intrinsically territorial. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4014342.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00344/vg_344948a.jpg
Douglas Rankine
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } He can otherwise be the perfectly articulate gent, but put your average bloke next to a games console and he becomes transfigured - Man becomes Caveman. Such are the findings of recent research in which brain activity was analysed while participants played video games.
In what must have been a nightmare of wiring, scientists at Stanford University rigged up participants to an MRI scanner while they played a specially designed game, the object being to make the most gains in territory.
The study revealed differences in motivation between the sexes. In male subjects, this brain activity increased as territory was accumulated. Writing in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the report's author, Dr Allan Reiss, concluded: “It's fair to say that males tend to be more intrinsically territorial. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4014342.ece