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He can otherwise be the perfectly articulate gent, but put your average blokenext to a games console and he becomes transfigured - Man becomes Caveman.Such are the findings of recent research in which brain activity wasanalysed while participants played video games. In what must have been a nightmare of wiring, scientists at StanfordUniversity rigged up participants to an MRI scanner while they played aspecially designed game, the object being to make the most gains interritory.
The study revealed differences in motivation between the sexes. In malesubjects, this brain activity increased as territory was accumulated.Writing in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the report's author, DrAllan Reiss, concluded: βIt's fair to say that males tend to be moreintrinsically territorial. It doesn't take a genius to figure out whohistorically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species.β
The study showed that women, although getting the hang of the game and able toassess how to win, were less driven to succeed. Well, that explains my verylimited discussions with my girlfriend on the subject of video games: βI cansee you're obsessed with blowing up that flashing red thing, darling. I justdon't understand why.β
DEBATE: Video games come with male territory Do they?