Computer games affect memory

2017-03-19

Source: Health News

      Many children at night after writing homework always like to play for a while to stimulate the computer game to relax and rest. However, a new study found that stimulating computer games could affect the quality of sleep and the memory of the newly learned knowledge.

      The results of the study published in the recent "pediatric" magazine. The researchers conducted 11 2 to 14-year-old healthy children without sleep problems for their 2-day trial, 2 to 3 hours before going to bed every night, and they let the kids play racing computer games.

      The study found that children who had finished racing after the game had increased the time required to sleep, and the slow wave sleep time was reduced. Slow wave sleep is the person's deep sleep, is to restore energy and physical strength of the best period, but also to increase the memory of the critical period.

      In addition, the researchers in the children playing computer games before and after they conducted a cognitive test, the results found that after playing the game children's memory decline.

      Researchers believe that people learn new knowledge, it will take some time to consolidate. And just finished hours after a few hours if a lot of emotional experience activities, it will affect the brain to consolidate the knowledge.

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