OK ladies and gentlemen, let's break this down. The idea is that playing a video game that requires intense consentration seems to have the effect of preventing the brain from storing information. Since there is nothing in the study which would indicate that either the video game or the brain mades an intentional effort to block only bad memories, then it must be concluded that all memories are affected. It is also reasonable to expect that memory is not the only function of the brain impacted. We will pause here to wait for the lifetime gamers to catch up...
Do we really want it to get out that playing video games interferes with life?
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