Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly

		IMAGE: This is an image from the video game BOOM BLOX, which the North Carolina State University researchers will be using as part of their study. Click here for more information.

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost memory and thinking skills in the elderly - and then to use their findings to develop a prototype video game to do just that.