BEER-SHEVA, Israel, June 4, 2024 – People tend to underutilize their visual working memory (VWM) rather than maxing out its capabilities according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University researchers.

Participants in a Duke University study engaged in physical activities, such as playing catch, while using either specialised eyewear that limits vision to only brief snapshots or while using eyewear ...

New research shows that the brain’s ability to detect subtle visual changes—like spotting an anomaly on a security monitor—depends on theta-frequency brain waves (3–6 Hz) that rhythmically sweep ...

This “digit span test” stems from 19th-century research on memory ... Here you’re testing your visual and visuospatial memory ...

Optical illusions are mind-bending images that have become popular among netizens in the last decade. These challenges test ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the key to understanding working memory relies not only on what one is storing in memory, but also why. This is the 'working' part of working memory, which ...