I knew it, Tetris can make you Smarter

Dr Shock
May 17, 2008
Buffer


Bass-Krueger wanted to test how large this effect was. He had some of his several dozen subjects play Tetris for 15 minutes. Then he gave everyone a spatial reasoning test similar to those used in IQ assessments. The results were staggering: Tetris players scored more than 55% higher than the control group. “Even in 15 minutes it can still have an effect,” Bass-Krueger told us here in Atlanta at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair, where he presented his results.

In Scientific American

More healthy games

Buffer

Popularity: 2% [?]

 

Related posts:

  1. Are whales smarter than humans?
  2. The placebo effect, dopamine and reward
  3. Chocolate as Make-Up
  4. Long Video Game Play and Time Perception, Chicken and Egg Problem
  5. When to make PowerPoint slides available to students?

Leave a Reply