In the study, healthy older participants trained on a computer game designed to boost visual perception. After ten hours of training, they not only improved their perceptual abilities significantly, ...

At the heart of the problem is the fragility of memory. As one researcher told 60 Minutes , we now know that memory is not like a videotape recorder - you don't just record an event and play it back.

Kyoko Hine, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ... (VR) may interfere with visual memory. In recent years, ...

Visual object memory refers to our brain's ability to store, recognize, and recall visual information about objects we ...

Just as a computer’s memory capacity constrains its abilities, visual memory capacity has been correlated with a number of higher cognitive abilities, including academic success, fluid ...

Then Flombaum's team set up a second test. With a new group of volunteers, the researchers flashed a single color on a computer screen, then later asked them to look at the same 180-hue color wheel ...

Interactive computer graphics and videos that add more senses to the mix can "make visual cues much stronger" and "improve visual memory," she says—and can also increase attention span.

A commercial brain fitness program has been shown to improve memory in older adults, at least in the period soon after training. The findings are the first to show that practicing simple visual ...

A commercial brain fitness program has been shown to improve memory in older adults, at least in the period soon after training. The findings are the first to show that practicing simple visual ...