Call of Duty— the first person shooter video game– may have a connection to the functioning of the human brain, a new study conducted at the University of Georgia suggests.

Colin Gardner, a Ph.D. student at the institution, claims that video games stimulate our brain to some degree. He also claims that when it comes to shooters, it stimulates parts of your brain such as the visual centres the pathways on which the visual information then travels to go around your brain.

The shooting also activates the primary motor cortex which is a major part of your brain which helps your body move.

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Brain training:

Gardener declared that has loved video games from childhood and well into adulthood hence his interest to understand the exact relationship between shooting and brain training. With more research, he found that shooters show high-speed trigger fingers and pinpoint precision make them the perfect unit “to track improvement in your brain’s reaction time and muscle memory”.

He goes on to say that video games also allow the shooter to improve instead of labelling it as just a “bad game” and that it also helps with one’s mindset. It fascinated him how much information our brains are able to process in such a short amount of time.  

Head space:

“The amount of detail that our brains work to connect our visual pathways to the rest of our brain is just mind-blowing,” Gardner said. There have been numerous claims which suggest that video games hamper headspace and are harmful in general. It truly is captivating how we interact with virtual reality and even though there is research, how it affects our headspace completely is too wide of a topic to cover.

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Even with major pros and cons, video games have been a major source of entertainment to a large age group and will be in the future.

This first-person shooting video game franchise was released in 2003 and was majorly based on World War II-themed video games. Over the years, the franchise has explored genres such as Cold War, apocalyptic world, outer space and futuristic world.