Hours spent playing action video games may not be as mindless as many parents think. Whether it's Spiderman or Grand Theft Auto 3 or others,  the fast-moving action of the games seems to improve a range of visual skills. 
　　
　　(孩子們)花在電子動作游戲上的大量時間也許并不像許多家長所想的那樣全無意義，諸如《蜘蛛俠》、《俠盜車手3》之類的游戲中快速變換的場景似乎有助于改善一系列的視覺技能。 
　　
　　"Although video-game playing may seem to be rather mindless, it is capable of radically altering visual processing," Daphne Bavelier, of the University of  Rochester  in New York, said in a letter to the science journal Nature. 
　　
　　紐約羅徹斯特大學(xué)的達芙妮貝弗利爾在致科學(xué)雜志《自然》的信中說：“看起來，玩電子游戲是件乏善可陳的事情，但它卻能從根本上改善視像處理能力?！?nbsp; 　       In four experiments Bavelier and her colleague discovered that people who played video games several times a week for six months could monitor  complex visual  information more easily than non-game players. But when the researchers gave novices 10 hours of training on the game Medal of Honor, they improved their visual processing skills. 

　　貝弗利爾和同事做了4次實驗，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)：與不玩游戲的人相比，那些在半年里每周玩幾次電子游戲的人能更輕松地處理復(fù)雜的視覺信息。不過，在研究者們用《榮譽勛章》游戲?qū)π率謧冞M行了10小時的培訓(xùn)之后，后者的視像處理能力也有所改進。  　　       "By forcing players to simultaneously juggle a number of varied tasks (detect new enemies, track existing enemies and avoid getting hurt, among    others) action-video-game playing pushes the limits of three rather different aspects of visual attention," Bavelier said. 

　　貝弗利爾說：“電子動作游戲迫使玩家同時應(yīng)付一系列不同的任務(wù)(發(fā)現(xiàn)新的敵人、跟蹤現(xiàn)有敵人、避免受傷等等)，視覺注意力中3個彼此迥異的方面由此得到了提高?！?BR>