Write me a essay based on this passage 1Could it be? Could playing video games . . . be good for something? Studies have linked nonstop video gaming to such ills as carpal tunnel syndrome1 and tennis elbow, not to mention the current obesity epidemic plaguing this nation’s young.
2On the positive side, some research has shown that playing video games can improve eye-hand coordination and visual attention—the ability to search for a target in a jungle of objects, to monitor several items at once, and to keep track of a steady stream of objects zipping swiftly by.
3And now comes more good news for video game aficionados.2 A new study . . . in the journalPsychological Science, shows that playing fast-paced, action-filled video games significantly sharpens vision . . . .
4The reason? “Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information,” says study author Daphne Bavelier, noting that after just 30 hours, video gamers showed “a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision.” Translation: “They could see figures like those way down on an eye chart more clearly,” she says, “even when other symbols crowded in.”
5Bavelier, an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, says the findings are helping scientists design a way to aid people with amblyopic or “lazy” eye.3
6“We think action video game playing trains the same part of the visual cortex (located in the back of the brain) as that which has a dysfunction4 in people with lazy eye,” Bavelier says. “This is showing us a new path forward for rehabilitation with these games . . . .”
7She notes that researchers were surprised by the findings, because it was previously believed that the adult visual cortex could not easily be retrained or taught new things. And yet, the results indicate that is exactly what happened. . . .
8But lest you think that is an excuse to start playing video games all the time—forget it. “There’s more to life than vision,” Bavelier chuckles. Besides, she notes, obsessive play will not necessarily lead to benefits, even in people with lazy eye. “It needs to be done properly,” she says about integrating video games into a treatment plan. “Usually people only have one amblyopic eye. We need to train the bad eye to become better, and the two eyes need to work together.” stating why video games are bad for eyesight
