14 DAY TRIAL // The University of California at San Francisco has published a study which reports that a brain training game might be able to improve the multitasking abilities of elderly players.
Nature informs of the study, which was led by Director Adam Gazzaley, the leader of the Neuroscience Imaging Center.
His team selected a sample of gamers between 60 and 85 who played a custom-made title, called NeuroRacer, for 12 hours each month and then had their performance with the game compared with a sample of 20 year olds.
The elderly group performed better, which might be just a simple result of their familiarity with NeuroRacer.
But the University of California at San Francisco team continued to test the group and found that they managed to still show improvements six months on and that their memory and other skills were also better.
There are other studies that show brain training video games actually have no effect on the cognitive performance of players.