They recruited a group of video-gamers and compared their reaction skills with a group of non-players. The gamers had all spent at least five hours a week on action games in the previous year.
Probably not, said Justine Roberts, the co-founder of online parenting group Mumsnet. "My gut reaction is that parents would worry about them distracting lessons."
These are so-called reducing sugars, which means they have a structure - "a funny tail," Ms. Corriher called it - known as a carbonyl group that takes part in the Maillard reaction.