Tetris for Trauma?

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Posted By: MMHawk (January 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM)

Tabi, as the article points out:

"Tetris should not interfere with memories for new facts, but you should probably think twice before playing it right after you tried to memorize a map or something else with a lot of visual or spatial content."

So if what you were studying had a lot of visuospatial info, then yes.

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Posted By: Tabi (January 7, 2009 at 10:41 PM)

Would playing tetris for ten minutes also hamper remembering other things? For instance, if it were played for ten minutes after studying, would I then have trouble remembering what I studied?