Money quote: > "This is the first time that we've been able to take a real world task like a video game and show that the size of specific brain regions is pre

Money quote: > "This is the first time that we've been able to take a real world task like a video game and show that the size of specific brain regions is predictive of performance and learning rates on this video game" To be fair, later in the study they mention that a particular sub-class of gaming skills has demonstrable overlap with real-world performance, namely being able to flexibly shift priorities. But taking that phrase out of context is just too tempting.