Updated 22 May, 2013, 11:42 am IST Playing UT Could Improve Your
Eyesight | by Sharon Khare | Video games that contain high
levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually
improve your vision according to researchers at the University
of Rochester. Their research shows that people who played action
video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month
improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify
letters presented in clutter — a visual acuity test similar to
ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics. "Action video game
play changes the way our brains process visual information,"
says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences
at the University of Rochester. "After just 30 hours, players
showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their
vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye
chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in."
Bavelier and graduate student Shawn Green tested college
students who had played few, if any, video