Brain sees violent video games as real life -study

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LONDON (Reuters) - The brains of players of violent video games react as if the violence were real, a study has suggested.

Klaus Mathiak at the University of Aachen in Germany studied the brain patterns of 13 men aged 18 to 26 who, on average, played video games for two hours a day.

Wired up to a scanner, they were asked to play a game involving navigating through a complicated bunker, killing attackers and rescuing hostages.

Mathiak found that as violence became imminent, the cognitive parts of the brain became active and that during a fight, emotional parts of the brain were shut down.

The pattern was the same as that seen in subjects who have had brain scans during other simulated violent situations.

It suggests that video games are a "training for the brain to react with this pattern," Mathiak says.

The research was presented at a meeting in Canada and reported by New Scientist magazine.

Whether violent videos make people more aggressive though is hard to prove, the magazine noted. Studies have suggested players of violent games are in fact more aggressive but have left open the question of whether the games made them that way.

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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject:

when will they just give up and let us have fun again?
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Wang Chung · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject:

So what if it makes us think violent? So what if I'm on a fragfest and pwn people absentmindedly? How the fuck is this a stunning revelation???

If I had emotions every time I blew Brutus' head off, then I'd stop and go, "Wow, that was really rude of me! Look at this bloody mess! I've got Brutus-Brain all over my new tank top! I'm so sorry Brutus, I didn't mean to kill you in suh a harsh manner!", but I don't, and it doesn't mean two shits.
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theboomboom · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject:

Sounds like Amish activity to me.

Ok, here's what we is gonna do. First, we start putting mineature bombs into pitchforks and other antique farming equipment and plastic explosives under their buggies. We wait until another study on this subject is releases, give the detonators to Al-Qaeda and let the situation resolve itself Twisted Evil

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Jabberwocky · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject:

theboomboom wrote:

Sounds like Amish activity to me.

don't dish the amish.

ChrisT · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject:

WTF man????

I am omish....
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CountChocula · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject:

don't dish the amish...?

you mean we can't serve them as food? I think you meant diss there?

waitaminute, are you British? Confused

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Cpt. LandLubber · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:14 am Post subject:

heh, I read this just five minutes ago. I don't see a problem in this, in a game you are concentrated to find cover, aim and survive, just as in a game. Not really surprising that we utilize same parts of the brain. And hell if I don't use my emotions when playing, I scream at the comp whenever I screw up Very Happy

The only problems are soccer moms who will use this as an argument against violent games
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Special Jimmy · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:19 am Post subject:

Cpt. LandLubber wrote:

heh, I read this just five minutes ago. I don't see a problem in this, in a game you are concentrated to find cover, aim and survive, just as in a game. Not really surprising that we utilize same parts of the brain. And hell if I don't use my emotions when playing, I scream at the comp whenever I screw up :D

The only problems are soccer moms who will use this as an argument against violent games

then their husbands kill the basketball coach.
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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:

Slaughter wrote:

WTF man????

I am omish....

unless your comp is powerd by a make and break engin atached to a generator and you are using a pice of twine for a phone line....you ant omish..........
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ChrisT · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

Drunken Monkey wrote:

Slaughter wrote:

WTF man????

I am omish....

unless your comp is powerd by a make and break engin atached to a generator and you are using a pice of twine for a phone line....you ant omish..........

OMG I am reformed Amish, we use computers, Nub.
Get with it man
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CountChocula · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

reformed Amish.. you mean normal people?
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Wang Chung · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject:

ReFORMATTED AMISH!
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