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Gamers, Our Brains Are Limited To Tracking Eight Objects At Once

At some level, no matter how many hours we dedicate to honing our...craft, if you will...our skills will always be limited by hardware based limitations. And by hardware we mean brain matter, not Cell processors. Researchers long believed that human perception was limited to tracking four moving objects at one time. But a new study, challenging participants to follow 16 dots moving at a very slow pace on a computer screen, found that participants were able to track up to eight objects at once (or double what we previously thought possible). There are limitations, of course. More »

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Control Space Invaders With An Epileptic's Tongue

A teenage epileptic being treated at St. Louis medical center is an adept expert at playing Space Invaders... with only his indomitable will, the flickering of the tongue and a colander slapped on top of his head. More »

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Video Games - Mental Exercise or Merely Brain Candy?

I have a bit of a jones for neurology, neuroscience and any other variation of suffix that tells me the exact composition of starch and electricity that bakes the noodle inside my head. So cue Developing Intelligence, an excellent neurology blog that recently posted about the influence of Video Games on mind development. More »