As many of you know our brain is divided into two hemispheres. The left side of our brain is the logical lingustic side of the brain while the left is the visual creative side. Most people have a more dominant left side, due to a skewed school system. This is why many people can't draw. They don't know how to use their right brain therefore the left side of the brain with it's symbols comes along and you end up with stick figures. It has been shown that by doing special drawing exercises that the left brain cannot or will not do (like draw a picture upsideown) that adults can go from a terrible drawing level to an expert level. This is the method lined out in the book "drawing on the right side of the brain". Not only can this book get you drawing at an expert level within a matter of days, it can totally change the way you think. Having only read half the book I have definatly noticed a difference in my drawing, and I am even starting to see differences in all areas of my thoughts. So this brings us to the question how does this relate to videogaming.
My theory is that videogames is a primarily right brained task. As already stated the right side of the brain is the visual side of the brain. Videogames especally FPS games are mostly composed of interpreting visual informaton and cordinating this with your hand. With this in mind many things suddenly make sense. For instance have you ever noticed that it is very hard to talk and play a game at the same time? If I am right I see many implications.
Playing music during your game particularly music such as classical or trance should give a very noticable improvement in gameplay. Music tends to bring out the right brain more. I would believe that music without words should work better because the words bring out the verbal left side of your brain.
TTM does not help people play better because they can see their opponents better but because it helps bring out the right side of your brain more.
However the most important implication I think relates to the book "drawing on the right side of the brain". This book has shown drastic results in teaching people how to draw. Similarly many people show an inability to play games. Particularly older people. They never learned the skills required to play the games when they were younger. This is why I believe few of the older people picked up videogames and even fewer females have played (because females tend to be more right brained). Such a book could take such a person from somebody that won't touch a videogame to complete hardcore gamer by teaching them to use the right side of their brain.
Is it possible to drastically increase a player's skill level in a matter of weeks or even days? If so then I think this is definantly an endeavor worth pursing. However right now it's just a theory and I don't have any sources and evidence to prove many of the assumptions I made above. Research would need to be done and even a few experiments to show it's application to gaming. Further more creating a program that would teach people to play games with their right brain would be extreemly difficult. What do you guys think?
My theory is that videogames is a primarily right brained task. As already stated the right side of the brain is the visual side of the brain. Videogames especally FPS games are mostly composed of interpreting visual informaton and cordinating this with your hand. With this in mind many things suddenly make sense. For instance have you ever noticed that it is very hard to talk and play a game at the same time? If I am right I see many implications.
Playing music during your game particularly music such as classical or trance should give a very noticable improvement in gameplay. Music tends to bring out the right brain more. I would believe that music without words should work better because the words bring out the verbal left side of your brain.
TTM does not help people play better because they can see their opponents better but because it helps bring out the right side of your brain more.
However the most important implication I think relates to the book "drawing on the right side of the brain". This book has shown drastic results in teaching people how to draw. Similarly many people show an inability to play games. Particularly older people. They never learned the skills required to play the games when they were younger. This is why I believe few of the older people picked up videogames and even fewer females have played (because females tend to be more right brained). Such a book could take such a person from somebody that won't touch a videogame to complete hardcore gamer by teaching them to use the right side of their brain.
Is it possible to drastically increase a player's skill level in a matter of weeks or even days? If so then I think this is definantly an endeavor worth pursing. However right now it's just a theory and I don't have any sources and evidence to prove many of the assumptions I made above. Research would need to be done and even a few experiments to show it's application to gaming. Further more creating a program that would teach people to play games with their right brain would be extreemly difficult. What do you guys think?