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Study finds avid Pokémon players have a dedicated region in the brain to identify Pokémon creatures
- Thread starter Atheerios
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n = 22? Yeah that's totally useless bullshit data.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0073-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0073-z
They're expertly designed to where silhouettes are instantly recognizable (ie whose that pokemon intermissions).
I had a theory that almost all of them are recognizable just from their eye designs alone and the people i sent this experiment to got almost all of them right (it was tougher in greyscale without colour)
The way cartoonists often style everything into very simple and distinct shapes and palettes seems to be very effective for differentiation and its part of why its the IP with my favourite creature designs.
I had a theory that almost all of them are recognizable just from their eye designs alone and the people i sent this experiment to got almost all of them right (it was tougher in greyscale without colour)
The way cartoonists often style everything into very simple and distinct shapes and palettes seems to be very effective for differentiation and its part of why its the IP with my favourite creature designs.
My parents used to tell me that if I could remember 151 different Pokemon I had no right to fail geography (which I never did, fyi). Now I can explain to them how that was a wrong statement.
Meh not necessarily. It doesn't affect the validity of the study.
Sounds about right
EDIT: ah I see it now. The eye pics are so small
What was that link supposed to go to?
EDIT: ah I see it now. The eye pics are so small
The study I quoted literally calls into question the validity of fMRI statistical significance in populations of less than 500-ish people. Too many variances to prove anything, specially with only 22 people. A study this small, means that the next time someone runs it they could get the exact opposite result.
Small sample sizes like this can be just fine, depending on what you're studying.
does it not work? i threw together a bunch of closeups of various Pokemon's eyes as an impromptu quiz a few days ago.
Nah. I'm on mobile so the eye pic was really tiny at the top and I didn't see it. You're good.
At least the Pokemon Center of your brain doesn't charge you for medical services.
I had this when I was a kid for sure, with the original 151.
I can't name them all in order anymore. FeelsBadMan
I can't name them all in order anymore. FeelsBadMan
I think as a kid I could name all of gen 1-3.
Now I only do Gen 1 outright. Gen 2 and Gen 3 are fuzzy, even tho Gen 3 is my favorite one.
Now I only do Gen 1 outright. Gen 2 and Gen 3 are fuzzy, even tho Gen 3 is my favorite one.
No, that would be the section that remembers the lyrics of 90s songs.
After playing every mainline Pokemon game I can name at least 15 pokemon. I'm not sure what that says.
Plenty of space in my brain is dedicated to useless pop culture information: Pokemon, Star Wars background characters, the history of Middle-Earth, Harry Potter spells, and the MCU timeline.
I'm surprised I can do anything else.
I'm surprised I can do anything else.
Probably the same region of the brain that London cabbies store The Knowledge in.
It's just just a Pokémon thing.
It's just just a Pokémon thing.
Back in the Red/Blue days when I was like 9 I used to hate Pokemon because "learning all 150 Pokemon would turn your brain to mush" and "You will run out of brain space to learn anything else". I wish I could show my 9 year old self this.
I can't for the life of me figure out what #3 is, but I'm also really tired and I know it'll be so obvious once I'm told.
I gave up on memorizing the names by gen 5. I still avidly play and enjoy the games, but the names come and go a lot more often nowadays.
Venusaur.
Venusaur.
So basically when people try to understand how the hell I can memorize all the shit I play and why I fail at being smart at anything else I can just point to them actual science? Shit, that's good enough for me
Oh wow I actually don't think I would've ever guessed that one. I was thinking off-color Metapod, Onix, Rhydon, Gible, Heliolisk, some kind of bug or steel or rock or dragon, lol.
This probably also is the reason why I find myself internalizing any new Pokemon related information at an astonishingly fast rate.
That explains why I could never memorize any lines from any play or poem, but I can consistently remember all my Pokémon.
Considering you need to know 8000-10000 words to be fluent in most languages it's actually more than doable. I'm currently learning my 4th language and plenty of people can speak many, many more than I do. Our brains can memorize lots of information but most people choose to not learn a lot. Obviously you have to be interested in that topic in the first place.
