Online Casino Games Proven to Improve Cognitive Ability
January 11, 2010
Posted by NewsBug in : Skill Games , trackback
Science comes to the rescue. According to a study published in the British Science Journal Perception, online gambling increases social activity, improves memory capacity and can also improve a player’s cognitive abilities. It showed that it can also have a beneficial effect on the development of an online player’s brain.
The study was conducted by Rolf Nelson, a Psychology professor at Wheaton College in Illinois.
In an attempt to understand the ways in which playing video games affect perception and cognitive abilities, he challenged twenty students with a spatial relation riddle before and after they played an action game and a strategy game. The players of the action game solved the riddle faster, but the students who played the strategy game had much more accurate results. Professor Nelson concluded that cognitive speed can be improved by playing action games and that long term accuracy can be improved by playing strategy and puzzle games.
This study has the benefit of strengthening the argument that online gaming has mental benefits.
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So I can gamble and get smarter!
Looks like at least I am getting some benefit out of it if I am losing
The trick is with gambling and any system that goes into the plan of action is timing. I’m not saying that luck plays no part, what i’m saying is that in order to win, you must remove luck from your own efforts.
Gambling in the short term is based upon factors that allow for the pits to rake back over episodes, these episodes can be worth millions of dollars and are provided by the majority of players.
These are the players who gamble without pattern and without routine, they barely think of each bet and fail to deal with losing scenarios. These are the players who provide the casino with its profit.
When i speak of the long term, i speak of utilising small and accurate methods that slowly rake profits on a 25 percent margin. These then build towards a bankroll of which then funds larger and more agressive plans of gambling.
gambling success, is not long term luck, its long term profit.