High levels of screen time before age two is linked to slower decision-making at age 8 and higher levels of anxiety by ...

Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

People who don’t think visually often have a hard time imagining the mental lives of those who do. By thinking, I mean conscious planning, problem-solving, imagining, and reminiscing. Most mental ...

In a recent review published in Brain Sciences, researchers reviewed existing data on visual impairments among Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. Parkinson's disease (PD), a widely prevalent ...

Visual Cognitive Assessment Test (VCAT) developed by the National Neuroscience Institute addresses the challenges of dementia screening in multi-lingual countries. VCAT is currently in use in ...

New research from Fujita Health University reveals that talking can subtly delay the eyes’ ability to detect and stabilize on ...

We conducted three experiments indicating that characteristically deontological judgments—here, disapproving of sacrificing one person for the greater good of others—are preferentially supported by ...

Also eyeing augmented reality and 3D printing, it’s led by producer-entrepreneur Brian Pope, ‘Hobbit’ alum Dave Hollingsworth and VFX vet Jeff Barnes. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor There’s a new, ...

Discover how video games, rather than harming our brains, may actually enhance our cognitive abilities. Learn from experts ...

For these creative people, visual thinking can mean using mental diagrams and snapshots to grasp ideas for oneself, and planning visual ways of presenting them to others. Back in the 1970s, the ...