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		<title>How Video Games Can Improve Your Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 01:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video games can improve your attention to detail.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.atpm.com/11.05/images/mind-hacks-cover.gif" title="mind hacks" alt="mind hacks" align="left" height="120" width="80" />Researchers at the University of Rochester compared the attentional blink of video gamers against people who rarely play any video games at all.  They found that gamers are able to simultaneously spot more of what they wanted to see in a quicker time frame.  This research suggests that gamers can skim books quicker, and will be able to find the information they need much faster than non-gamers. [Read the <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mindhks/chapter/hack43.pdf" target="_blank">video game research</a> from <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mindhks/" target="_blank">Mind Hacks</a>]</p>
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