A predator robot, right, faces a prey robot, left.
(Credit: Dario Floreano & Laurent Keller)
If robots are allowed to evolve through natural selection, they will develop adaptive abilities to hunt prey, cooperate, and even help one another, according to Swiss researchers.
Prior cognitive, psychological, and neurological studies have shown that expert video game players are capable of outperforming novices in measures of attention and perception. They also have demonstrated that, when novices train on video games for 20-plus hours, they experienced no measurable increase in cognitive ability. These two pieces of information would seem to point to an innate difference between expert and novices gamers, instead of suggesting that gaming is a skill that can be learned.
New neurological research, published in—and made freely available by—the journal Cerebral Cortex has found a correlation between the size of a trio of structures in the human brain and their owner's ability to learn and play video games. Animal studies had focused the authors' attention on three distinct structures deep within the brain: the caudate nucleus and the putamen in the dorsal striatum, and the nucleus accumbens in the ventral striatum. It was known that the striatum was used in habit forming and skill acquisition, so a role in video games skills makes sense.
I know who I am going to blame bad dps or hps on next time! My underdeveloped brain, that's who!
This is the darkest vision of future MMOs including a sick version of Second Life. Only that not just the players but also the Avatars are real people. It does take a strong stomach to see it, however.
And have a look at the truck that is shown. Now that's a car!
