Your Brain on Tetris
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We’ve been playing Tetris for over thirty years, quickly rotating and aligning thosefalling blocks. It seems like a simple game by today’s standards, but it taps into ourpsychology in a pretty complex way. Some say it boosts brain power, but it can be highlyaddictive.Is there a tipping point where Tetris goes from being good to bad?In one study a group played Tetris one and a half hours a week for three months and researchersfound it changed the structure of their brain. Their cerebral cortex, the outer layer ofthe brain, became thicker in certain places. And other areas of their brains became moreefficient – over time they used less glucose to fuel the same task.But… we can’t really tell how some changes in brain structure affect your brain function.And if you did a...
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We’ve been playing Tetris for over thirty years, quickly rotating and aligning thosefalling blocks. It seems like a simple game by today’s standards, but it taps into ourpsychology in a pretty complex way. Some say it boosts brain power, but it can be highlyaddictive.Is there a tipping point where Tetris goes from being good to bad?In one study a group played Tetris one and a half hours a week for three months and researchersfound it changed the structure of their brain. Their cerebral cortex, the outer layer ofthe brain, became thicker in certain places. And other areas of their brains became moreefficient – over time they used less glucose to fuel the same task.But… we can’t really tell how some changes in brain structure affect your brain function.And if you did a...
