pokoko said: It doesn't have to be "brain training" games. Plain old Call of Duty will improve not only certain cognitive functions, it will also improve your vision. It's becoming more and more obvious that video-games are good for you.
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Of course, I just picked that one because it fits though.
I used to play a game called Heracles (the Greek name for Hercules) an had all the character, their names, and what they did in it. So in college when we read the Odyssey and the Iliad I was already familiar with all of them. Drove the rest of my class makes nuts trying to figure out who everyone was.
Plus, many games are problem solving. I remember a while ago, they made some puzzle game out of an unsolved problem. Gamers solved it.
Applied skills are rarely linear.