Half Of 26-Year-Old's Memories Nintendo-Related

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:59 am

Half Of 26-Year-Old's Memories Nintendo-Related

January 12, 2008 | Issue 44•02

BROOKLYN, NY—Nearly 50 percent of 26-year-old paralegal Philip Jenkins' encoded long-term memories involve button combinations, game-playing experiences, and spatial-cognitive maps of various levels and worlds from Nintendo's line of video-game consoles, a team of neuroscientists reported Tuesday.

The memory-evaluation study, headed by Dr. Franklin McCarroll of New York University's School of Psychology, revealed that approximately 47 percent of Jenkins' hippocampus is dedicated to storing notable video-game victories and frustrating last-minute defeats, while 32 percent of his amygdala contains embedded neurological scripts pertaining to game strategies, character back stories, theme songs, and cheat codes. In addition, his entire dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is devoted to remembering the time he did a helicopter dunk from half-court with Shawn Kemp at the buzzer to beat the Charlotte Hornets 82-81 in NBA Jam: Tournament Edition.
Full Story

chicken n waffles · Post by **chicken n waffles** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:01 am

Post by **Sabre** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:21 am

It's a sad state of affairs when this is probably true for 50% of the kids out there...

zaxrex · Post by **zaxrex** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:23 pm

Thank god Im not 26

Cereb Daithi · Post by **Cereb Daithi** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:16 pm

I still have very vivid memories of colecovision