Stanford researchers had a hunch that adults who spent hours as kids playing Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue would have a category region just to identify the 151 characters in the original game. And the researchers were right: There is a brain region that basically acts as a mental Pokédex. Unlike people in the control group, Poké-heads’ brains had a region that clearly responded to the images of Pokémon, but not other things. Pokémon images were “always falling on the same part of the eye, activating the same part of the brain,” he said. The developing brain is more plastic than that of an adult, but you’re never too old to learn.

Source: National Post May 09, 2019 16:30 UTC