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The subjects received full brain scans three times, at approximately one-year intervals, as they played a computerized game that delivered rewards and punishment in the form of smiling or scowling peers.

It’s the fans who grow up imagining players as cyborgs in a computerized game, as supermen who can’t be broken and increasingly as mere fantasy characters on a spreadsheet or website.

In contrast, Bogg noted, “being actively engaged in life is much more likely to be associated with healthy cognition than sedentary time devoted to improving one's performance on a computerized game.”

And Jaeggi said that she found it difficult to understand how a dozen or so hours of playing a computerized game could have a strong and lasting influence on the brain.

In a computerized game that involves contributing money to a common pool, people who took longer to think over their options were more likely to be selfish.