Exercising your brain playing bingo

Playing bingo can maintain your brain in form and the greater you are, the more agile you could be, or that is at least what the investigators of a university of Southampton affirm, in England.

Tests carried out in this university removed to shine that the players of bingo are faster and commit less errors in a series of tests that measure the speed of the mind, the memory and the ability to catch the information of our surroundings.

The players must be able to dial the numbers quickly and must have good coordination manual and eyeglass, abilities that are deteriorated with the age. Unlike another games like chess, basket or backgammon, that requires abilities that are stored in the brain and which they remember when they are needed, for bingo one must be able to quickly identify the numbers in a limited time.

Julie Winston, Psychology of the center of Visual Cognition department of the University of Southampton, analyzed during a period of a year the mental ability of players of bingo. It analyzed the answer of 112 people among 18 and 40 years, and of greater people, among 60 and 82 years. Half of the members of each of these two groups were players of bingo, the other half no.

Winston presented/displayed its conclusions in Winchester in the Annual Conference of the Group of Psychologists with Special Interest in People. The English psychologist said that she suspected that activities like bingo that entail great mental activity could postpone the loss of mental abilities like the rapidity and the precision in the recognition of landlords.

Their studies approve and put the abilities to which it resorts when it gambles bingo. In the study of young players of bingo and majors and people participated who did not play bingo. All the players of bingo were faster and righter than those than they did not play bingo. Nevertheless, in certain tests the people majors left better scored than the young people.

Winston explained that the results of the study follow the same tendency that the increasing investigation in this area that it suggests to participate regularly in activities that require a high level of mental activity aid, to maintain the mental functions in the future. Nevertheless, it revealed that the objective of this study was the one to identify the mental abilities that enter game at the time of playing bingo to be able to exactly determine that to play bingo can maintain our brain in form.

The scientist said that she hoped that the regular players of bingo left better evaluated in abilities associated with bingo. She emphasized that the age players more outpost as the young people were able to reach the same level of yield. Also she said that the youngest players were faster and the brightest majors.

Winston concluded saying that bingo is an activity which is worth the pain to become jumbled, just as others like the basket or puzzles, since when it is carried out, they take part a variety of processes. In addition it said that the ideal is not to concentrate in a single activity if not to vary and that bingo did not have of being discarded like a beneficial activity.