His team recruited 24 volunteers, 12 of whom were non-Scrabble players, and 12 of whom were Scrabble experts. Each of them were placed in front of a computer that displayed a jumble of letters. Their task was to identify, as quickly as possible, which letters could be re-arranged to form proper English words. While this was happening, their brain states were being monitored by an fMRI scanner.
Results showed that Scrabble players were better and faster at the task, which came as no surprise. But the researchers also learned that Scrabble players use a different part of the brain for the exercise.
via Gizmodo
