Gamers may learn visual tasks faster
Brown University researchers have found that gaming not only improves your visual skills, but it also appears to improve the learning ability for those skills....
read moreFor reading, auditory processing trumps visual processing
A University of Buffalo professor’s research indicates that concentrating on word sounds over visual processing during reading instruction or when treating dyslexia is vital....
read moreAging-related declining IQ tied to visual processing speed
Declining intelligence as we age appears to be tied in to how fast we can process visual information....
read moreVisual cortex uses information from ears too
Researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow have discovered that the visual cortex uses information from what you hear, as well as what you see....
read moreSpatial attention and object-based attention use similar mechanisms...
New research says that spatial attention and object-based attention are surprisingly similar and actually use similar mechanisms and related brain regions. Both are governed by the prefrontal cortex, and in object-based attention, the inferior frontal junction (which is in...
read moreJuggling may help us understand brain disorders
Researchers believe that juggling may help them better understand how vision and sense of touch control the way we (and animals) move our limbs repetitively....
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