The dopamine release that comes from gaming is so powerful, say researchers, it can almost shut the prefrontal regions down.
Practicing anything repetitively physically changes the brain. With time and effort, you get better at the specific task you're practicing
Those repetitive actions and thoughts stimulate connections between brain cells, creating neural pathways between different parts of your brain. The more you practice a certain activity, the stronger that neural pathway becomes. That's the structural basis of learning.
"Use it or lose it" applies not just to muscles in the body, but also the brain. Neural pathways that are not used eventually get pruned.
Wow, I was talking about the psychology of minds but yet I missed this post earlier!
What she seems to be saying is that too much bullet makes you lose your mind?
In a word, yes.
But, if you are truly playing by instinct and intuition in bullet, the frontal regions of the brain are not the center of activity.
Someone should test this with brain scans. Is there more activity at the back of the brain during bullet?
When you do not use the part of the brain that do the calculation it cannot be optimize for that task....it's logical...you can play a 15/10 game only by intuition and reflex if you are 1550 here like one of my friend but if you never do any calculation you are really not playing at your full potential and your calculation skill is really slow and terrible.
Bullet and Blitz basically make your brain get used to playing quickly and not calculating unless you try to. Higher-rated players probably calculate and are already good since they do puzzles.