{"id":2043,"date":"2013-11-04T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2013-11-04T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:29:48","slug":"play-games-to-make-you-smrtr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Play Games To Make You Smrtr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;d ya&#8217;ll get up to for Halloween? Me? I went to the California Academy of Sciences where I learned my blood type, and got to see a human brain being dissected. Nothing says spooky like learnin&#8217;. Then I spent most of the weekend getting smarter. At least according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpg.de\/7588840\/video-games-brain\">this study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve learned a lot through playing games; I did a lot of my reading in the form of playing Role Playing Games as a kid. Certainly playing games like Civilizations, Sim City, FTL, are going to help you learn to strategize, and any game with as horrible of a camera control as Super Mario 64 is obviously going to force you to have heightened spacial awareness. None of this brain business comes as a surprise to me, given that I see gaming as a form of <a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/news\/2013\/06\/23\/meditations-effects-on-emotion-shown-to-persist\/56372.html\">meditation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;d ya&#8217;ll get up to for Halloween? Me? I went to the California Academy of Sciences where I learned my blood type, and got to see a human brain being dissected. Nothing says spooky like learnin&#8217;. Then I spent most of the weekend getting smarter. At least according to this study. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cool-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}