The Tetris effect has to be the clearest possible indication that computer games are naturally optimal Flow-inducing activities. As to why, well it has a lot to do with cognitive information processing. For more, look to the last link here.
posted by zenBen at 11:51 PM
"Shoot them!"
"Not yet, I want to study their habits."
As a games researcher & sometime developer, occasional posts of interest will pop up here, when I have a word or two to put down.
The blog'o'sphere in general is a worthwhile human enterprise insofar as
common-cause bloggers form self-organising structures of knowledge-sharing &
peer networking. This requires a level of authorship & maintenance I doubt I'll
match, & so this site usually follows the more static academic model: publications,
wanna-be publications, attended conferences, other design and research
activities, miscellaneous...
"No work, no food...work is the koan" - Hyakujo
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Surely the Tetris Effect and earworms just speak to the power of expansive neural networks to retain patterns after repeat exposure, something we would both predict and expect?
We hold patterns in our "soft" memory while we wait for the "hard" memory to encode it, possibly while we dream. (Although the assertion that echidnas do not dream gives me pause, for surely they learn!)
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