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October 15, 2005
Violent video games lead to brain activity characteristic of aggression
Medical News Today 13 Oct 2005
A Michigan State University researcher and his colleagues have shown that playing violent video games leads to brain activity pattern that may be characteristic for aggressive thoughts. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 13 male research participants were observed playing a latest-generation violent video game. Each participant's game play was recorded and content analyzed on a frame-by-frame basis.
"There is a causal link between playing the first-person shooting game in our experiment and brain-activity pattern that are considered as characteristic for aggressive cognitions and affects," said René Weber, assistant professor of communication and telecommunication at MSU and a researcher on the project. "There is a neurological link and there is a short-term causal relationship.
[...] The entire report of the research will appear in the January 2006 edition of Media Psychology.
Posted by Emma at October 15, 2005 01:27 PM
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