Mario and his makers once again assert their dominance of
spatial navigation games, displaying a rude abundance of ideas to delight, surprise and celebrate innocence and playfulness.
Not exact matches
The studies» results show that video
games can be either detrimental or beneficial to the brain's
spatial memory system depending not only on the
navigation strategy players use but also on the video
game genre they choose.
«It takes the playful pleasure of
spatial navigation that people are familiar with from
games, with the same kinds of controls and feedback, and applies it to the exploration of information about
games,» said Noah Wardrip - Fruin, professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz.
A new mobile
game that tests players»
spatial navigation awareness also doubles as the largest dementia research ever.
Playing video
games a moderate amount of time does build digital reading and
navigation skills and
spatial skills.
Specifically, we hypothesized that older adults who trained on the 3D - platform
game Super Mario 64 for 6 months would benefit from its prominent
spatial navigation components [15, 17].
In several studies reviewed by the American Psychological Association (APA) it was found that playing video
games not only improves children's problem - solving and reasoning skills but also strengthens cognitive skills like memory and
spatial navigation.