Adam Gazzaley

These [ games ] are designed to be really enjoyable and sticky, human nature, in many ways, is to find something you enjoy and just keep doing it, but I do believe you have to fight against those habit-forming activities and find diversity. Moderation is the main thing.

The basic idea is to use a video game that engages a player in an immersive way, which we think is critical, and challenging them appropriately to their ability.

Although most players may not have scientific training, they may indeed have skills( e.g. logic, spatial manipulation) that make them valuable, there is great potential for widely distributed games played by large numbers of individuals around the world to aid the scientific discovery process.

It is likely that the largest effects will be for novices and especially those that are suffering deficits in cognition, but, continued benefits may take place if the game continues to engage the player at a high level as they continue to improve.