See, ma? All those years you thought I was turning my mind to mush in front of TV, when this study shows watching sports actually engages your mind in beneficial ways. Turns out it was the drugs that made me an idiot. Wish I’d seen that coming.
Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, new research at the University of Chicago shows.
Brain imaging revealed that when hockey players and fans listen to language about hockey, they show activity in the brain regions usually used to plan and select well-learned physical actions. The increased activity in motor areas of the brain helps hockey players and fans to better understanding hockey language. The results show that playing sports, or even just watching, builds a stronger understanding of language, Beilock said.
And they only tested this on hockey fans. Imagine the benefit for people who watch interesting sports!
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Hey Ape, that new joke about hockey you just made up? Hi-larious. Get fucked.
Actually, Ape, it’s the opposite. This only works for hockey. Others sports are so mundane and boring and filled with blacks, that they turn brain activity down.
In conclusion, hockey > other sports (especially baseball and football).
Good thing I don’t speak hockey.
They should introduce sports into schools.
Jim Jones, your avatar is flaming.
hockey < prison rape
On the bright side; if you talk about baseball long enough (on average 12 minutes) Alzheimer type symptoms set in.
fuck enrico…. i couldn’t get signed in fast enough to say that. the part about jim jones creaming his pants to Anze’s dark luscious eyebrows and soft eyes. Not the hockey to rape part. That part is full of shit.
This news comes as no surprise. I remember sitting around with other surfers, some of whom were otherwise so dumb they thought you could ride a kayak down a set of rapids and end up back where you started, and when they talked about waves, reefs, and tides they sounded like PhD level oceanographers.
It’s not that hockey sucks balls, it’s just…shit…maybe if I watched more hockey I’d be smart enough to think of a synonym for “sucks balls”.
Hockey fans brains are wired better. Just ask Jimmy the Greek.
I watch sports, and I am a goddamn genius.
Although my mother, wife, mother-in-law, and paycheck would disagree.
Just thinking about hockey right now trying to come up with something to say nearly stopped all brain functions as I drifted into a mild seizure for nearly 5 minutes.
Hockey > every other sport out there
If you don’t agree, eat a big steaming pile of dick