Brain training can work when properly targeted…as in this new vision study

Focus­ing the brain on bet­ter vision (The New York Times): “As adults age, vision dete­ri­o­rates. One com­mon type of decline is in con­trast sen­si­tiv­i­ty, the abil­i­ty to dis­tin­guish gra­da­tions of light to dark, mak­ing it pos­si­ble to dis­cern where one object ends and anoth­er begins. But new research sug­gests that con­trast sen­si­tiv­i­ty can be improved with…

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Gaming Your Way to Better Vision (Research Executive Brief)

(Edi­tor’s Note: this is one of the Research Exec­u­tive Briefs that includ­ed in Sharp­Brains’ mar­ket report. We asked lead­ing neu­ro­sci­en­tists to share find­ings and impli­ca­tions from their own recent pub­lished sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies in order to bet­ter fore­cast the devel­op­ment tra­jec­to­ry of emerg­ing appli­ca­tions for cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness.) Brief pre­pared by: Bjron Hubert-Wal­lan­der, Bjorn…

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