might seem banal but the images are said to help which even in the brain experts at the hamburger university medical center are investigating whether they really do combat set and aspects of aging professor you're going gonna have long use cognitive tests and our ice guns to analyze the effect of computer games on the brain we have children but in earlier studies with young people we found that those who play video games last exhibited the growth in volume in particular areas of the brain. that came as a surprise we performed a range of follow up studies and we were able to show that certain elements in a video game a big impact in particular is the aspect of spatial navigation which appears to have an effect on the plasticity of the hippocampus c.t. it was this hippocampus. that's a part of the brain that's vitally important. for our memory. given the right workout the hippocampus can evidently be kept in shape well into old age. video games often resemble the real world you move around in 3 dimensional spaces navigation is a complex issue for the brain and video games are designed for people to have fun