If being a good gamer isn’t enough for you, there’s something else you can boast – the size of your brain.
Researchers say they can predict your performance on a video game simply by measuring the volume of specific structures in your brain.
The new study, in the journal Cerebral Cortex (cool name, guys), found that nearly a quarter of the variability in achievement seen among men and women trained on a new video game could be predicted by measuring the volume of three structures in their brains.
According to the research, expert video gamers outperform novices on many basic measures of attention and perception, but other studies have found that training novices on video games for 20 or more hours often yields no measurable cognitive benefits.
These contradictory findings suggest that pre-existing individual differences in the brain might predict variability in learning rates, the authors wrote.
The researchers found that players who had a larger nucleus accumbens did better than their counterparts in the early stages of the training period, regardless of their training group.
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