COgnitive Neuroscience of Gaming Alliance

I think we should form this thing. I find it amusing that we made a task inspired by video games, and other researchers are just like,

“Why bother doing more work? Just use the video game!”

Art Kramer’s stuff is apparently making its way across the tech blogosphere. Coolness.

Wired: MRI Gaming
Gizmodo: MRI scans reveal whether you’re a good gamer

The longer things progress, the more video game-like our SISL task gets. I wonder if that particular video game they used features a lot of task-specific learning, or if it’s a matter of developing little implicit, sequence-type chunks that assist in performance. Either way, it seems like implicit research and video games are a match made in nerd heaven.