A commercial brain fitness program has been shown to improve memory in older adults, at least in the period soon after training. The findings are the first to show that practicing simple visual tasks ...

Researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. The ...

Working visual memory in kids works differently from adults. Neuroimage, via John Spencer When kids look around, how much are they taking in about the objects that surround them? Scientists have ...