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This is a massive miss representation of the study’s findings.
All it found was that people who grew up consuming pokemon media route their visual recognition of pokemon to the specialized recognition portion of their brain, which is the region of the brain responsible for recognizing frequently recurrent types of specialized pattern recognition, as opposed to the more generalized processing and pattern recognition that the rest of your visual centers use.
Other examples of things that stimulates are faces, writing, traffic signs. It’s the type of thing which would probably also have been used when humans were hunter gatherers to spot and identify specific berries amongst bushes.
Basically all the study means is that your brain’s recognized that there are a lot of Pokemon, that they have various specific visual nuances which distinguish them, and that they are something you saw fairly frequently. So instead of repeatedly routing it over to generalize processing to identify the visual same input for the umpteenth time, your brain says, “Wait, I remember these. It’s one of those things again.”, and kicks it on over to specialized processing which has more easily reached dedicated pathways for specifically identifying whatever that thing is for the millionth time.
