What is Artificial Intelligence?

simulated game using brain waves (by Melissa Folks, learning specialist)

Video games and/or computer games are said to disturb the learning behaviors of children in school. Contrary to what is believed to be the villain in children's poor performance in school, is actually helping kids focus more in their studies. But, of course, these computer games should be educational, meaning it shouldn't include any violent scenes.

Several mind over game studies have already proven their hypothesis. And in a recent experiment conducted at a London primary school for children with learning and attention difficulties, scientists studied the learning behaviors of children by making them concentrate over their own brain waves as they see them on the computer.

Two electrodes were attached one to the ear and other to the scalp. Electrodes were used to measure electrical activities of the part of the brain where millions of neural activity occurs. The captured electrical signals are seen as "waves".

The study suggests that "lots of theta waves mean you're drowsy, low to medium frequency beta waves are good for calm, focused attention and flexibility, while lots of high frequency beta waves mean you're excited or anxious"

Furthermore, when the brain finds the right balance of all three wave patterns simultaneously, the subject is said to have success in the simulated game, that is in a maze his or "her character is going around eating dots, making beeps and getting points". This is called neurofeedback.

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