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“Video game players are able to pick up very subtle, statistical irregularities in environments and use them to their advantage. And these same irregularities in environments are the things that help us guide our behaviors on a daily basis.”

-Brain researcher Jay Pratt, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, whose research on gamers suggest that playing video games can have potentially positive effects.

“If you look at professional piano players, professional musicians, you see this phenomena where they don’t activate as much of their brain to do very complicated things with their hands that the rest of us need to do. And we found that the gamers did this as well.”

Neuroscientist Lauren Sergio, of York University in Toronto