Brain scans reveal a ‘pokémon region’ in adults who played as kids

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Wicked cool! It also plays for the theory of areas specialized based on the stimuli origin (center of vision)

EDIT: and for the low number of participants, when it comes to brain function, it's often unfortunately the case. At the same time, "hardware" differences are not very large within the human race: visual cortex is visual cortex.

This study has 11 participants each in the player and non-player groups. It seems...hard to draw a reliable conclusion from that.

Sample size is too small to actually make any insights. I'll volunteer if they want to expand the data set. Maybe they only found 11 people who didn't play?

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