Around here we’re big believers in the good of gaming. Gamers have proven to have amazing collective reasoning enabling them to crack the code of an Aids-like virus, and incredible hand-eye coordination. Now scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston validate yet again that gaming is a pastime with more depth. They gave game playing students virtual surgery tools and measured their skills against UTMB residents. The gamers did slightly better.
The study used machines that replicate surgical procedures — suturing, passing off needles and other tasks. The participants’ competency was based on such things as how much tension was placed on the instruments and hand eye coordination.
via DVICE
