TUESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Fast-action video games
may help train people to make quick, accurate decisions in all
aspects of life, new findings suggest. The authors of a study
published Sept. 14 in the journal Current Biology theorize that
action games like Halo encourage players to better use evidence
drawn from their senses in decision-making, a skill known as
probabilistic And their decisions are just as accurate as those
of non-players, which is evidence that the fast-paced gamers are
not responding in a "trigger-happy" fashion, the researchers
said. "They are making more efficient use of the information
that is out there," said C. Shawn Green, lead author of the
study and a postdoctoral associate at the University of
Minnesota's department of psychology. "They are pulling more
information from the sensory world, related to the decision
facing them." It was only action games, which are commonly
"shooter" games, that had this effect, as opposed to strategy or
role-playing games, the study author