Standing in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology department, Jesse Gomez, a former neuroscience graduate student, looked at brain images of Pokémon experts. Brain scan after brain scan, ...

Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series. If your childhood involved ...

How does a child’s brain dedicate entire regions for processing faces or words? In order to answer this question, Stanford University neuroscientist Jesse Gomez leveraged a novel visual data set: ...

People who spent a significant portion of their childhood playing Pokémon games are found with a special region in their brain dedicated solely to recognizing Pikachu and friends. Don't worry, it's ...

Neurons are notoriously picky. A few will fire like crazy for Jennifer Aniston, but not for Halle Berry; some pay homage to Kobe Bryant, while turning a cold shoulder to Bill Clinton. Others still, it ...

For a lot of kids in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, life came in two colors: Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. The Nintendo Game Boy games seemed life changing, turning recess into journeys out of Pallet ...

Back in 1996, Jesse Gomez memorized over 150 Pokémon by sight while playing the Nintendo Gameboy version of the popular anime. Little did he know that Gomez’s geeky point of pride would become the ...

In brief: We all know a child's mind can be influenced by his or her experiences early on in life, but according to one Stanford study, some hobbies were far more influential than others. Modern ...

A new study by researchers from Stanford University has found the long lasting impact of playing hours of Pokemon as a kid. Researchers from Stanford have discovered that longtime Pokemon fans have a ...

In the last two decades, few video game franchises have risen to the international acclaim like Pokémon. Over 100 games, card games, and movies have all left their mark on a generation. And that's not ...

If your childhood involved countless hours spent capturing, training and battling Pokémon, there may be a wrinkle in your brain that is fond of images of Wobbuffet, Bulbasaur and Pikachu. Stanford ...