Playing Pokemon as a kid changed your brain
 

You now have a Pokemon brain

After scanning the brains of adults who played Pokemon as kids, researchers have discovered that they have a part of the brain region that responds more to the cartoon characters than to other pictures.

The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour said that the study gives new insight into how the brain organises visual information.

Researchers recruited 11 adults who were "experienced" Pokemon players -- meaning they began playing between the ages of five and eight, continued for a while, and then played again as adults -- and 11 novices.

First, they tested all of the participants on the names of Pokemon to make sure the pros actually could tell a Clefairy from a Chansey. Next, they scanned the participants' brains while showing them images of all 150 original Pokemon - in rounds of eight - alongside other images, like animals, faces, cars, words, corridors, and other cartoons. In experienced players, a specific region responded more to the Pokemon than to these different images.

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