The Complexity of StarCraft

Real-time strategy games like those in the StarCraft series have competitive modes where players manage armies and economies from an overhead perspective. Successful players can switch their attention around and click their mouse buttons fast enough to perform at least 400 different actions per minute. Most casual players would probably only be able to do one-eighth of that on a good day. In 2013, neuroscientists in Korea subjected the brains of 23 professional StarCraft players to an MRI in order to study the structure of their brains. The brain is a viable and shapeable organ that will respond with tiny but detectable physical growth with use of specific areas.