As most of my readers know, I am an avid Legend of Zelda fan. Needless to say, this holiday season featured an inordinate amount of time playing Twilight Princess on the Wii. I would prefer that games NOT keep track of how many hours you have played…. Our whole family Read more…
Physicians at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO surgically applied a grid of electrodes on the surface of a 14 year old boy’s brain in order to locate the focus of his troubling seizures. While waiting to observe a seizure in action, the docs tried something Read more…
I really do love psychology, but on occasion, I fantasize about being a student again today and what I might choose to study. Hands down, the most fun major I’ve heard of anywhere is the University of Southern California’s Interactive Media major. You got it…go to school to learn to design Read more…
Does exposure to the intrepid Duke Nukem desensitize players to violence? Psychologists, in my experience, just don’t like videogames. Some seem positively determined to discover some horrible outcome they produce, and even though we all know better, you still see people who want to interpret correlations as proving causality. The most Read more…
Here is a true confession….I am a Legend of Zelda addict. I don’t know what there is about the little guy in green, but unless I’m careful, inordinate amounts of time may be spent running him around Hyrule. I always felt a bit alone in this hobby. Tetris has Read more…