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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Trend: Mobile apps to improve vision via perceptual learning

. Vision train­ing: Mobile app improved pilots’ vision (Air­craft Own­ers and Pilots Asso­ci­a­tion): “Mil­i­tary pilots (and oth­er test sub­jects) have improved their vision after a few weeks of train­ing with a new appli­ca­tion for mobile devices—an appli­ca­tion now avail­able to the pub­lic. The tech­nol­o­gy has helped ded­i­cat­ed users reverse age-relat­ed vision loss, and to help…

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