Re:They are old enough when... (Score 1)

The try was a lot better than you can imagine. First of all, you can attack an idea without attacking the person; not knowing this speaks about your experience in intellectual endeavors. Secondly, you just did not read... I never mentioned "deactivation" but used "decreased activity" instead, and you should know how big the frontal lobe is; this is not a medical forum, so the details have to be overlooked. Third, there are epidemiological studies that indicate decrease of IQs worlwide (Sundet et al.), and it seems to be linked to decrease in linguistic activity caused by increase in media consumption (videogames are part of the problem). Finally, you should not attack an anonyumous post, simply because you just do not know what hard data do I have in my hands. By your response, it is obvious that you do believe the opposite of what I proposed (videogames have negative effects); perhaps because you are a videogamer yourself, you threw out there an intellectual attack of very poor qiualty. This, in deed, supports my initial argument, thank you very much.