兒時玩電玩提升認知力

Playing games improves memory

兒時玩電玩提升認知力

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，玩電子遊戲會導致腦結構變化，包括增加某些區域的大小，或導致大腦產生功能性改變，如激活負責注意力或視覺空間技能的區域。

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的最新研究進一步表明，即使不玩遊戲好多年後，其導致的認知變化也會發生。

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

這是一篇發表在《人類神經科學前沿》上的論文得出的一個結論。

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，遊戲的最大共同點是，它們包含使人們想要玩下去的元素，而且逐漸變得越來越難，並提出了持續的挑戰。

"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性，反過來又需要不斷地高強度地使用我們的大腦資源。”帕勞斯指出：“電子遊戲是增強我們認知能力的完美祕訣，潛移默化地發揮着作用。”