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http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-brain-differently-depending-on-what-you-play
"In the majority of action video games, there's an onscreen GPS overlaid on the screen," West says. "There's also wayfinding markers overlaid over the environment, and we know from past studies that when people are encouraged to navigate using these cues, really, they're not using their hippocampal memory system to navigate."
"While we train up this one system, this other system is potentially being neglected and potentially showing signs of atrophy," West says.
"It could be the case that these action video games are encouraging people to favor this reward system over their hippocampal memory system. And then it's become the use-it-or-lose-it type scenario."