Medicine is often called a blend of art and science. But can studying Picasso and Gauguin turn budding doctors into better diagnosticians? That’s the premise behind an elective introduced this fall ...

The first study of individual variation in visual ability has shown that there is a broad range of differences in people's capability for recognizing and remembering novel objects and has determined ...

Children with amblyopia who used the AmblyoPlay app 5 days a week for 6 months had significant improvements in visual acuity, ...

Computer game players score off the charts in several standard vision tests, a new study has revealed, suggesting the games are not the utter waste of time some think. Furthermore, the visual skills ...

Sporting edge Their ability to quickly unravel complex visual data on the run puts professional athletes in a league of their own, suggests a new study. These extraordinary skills give them the edge ...

A small study from Brown University suggests video gamers, who are already known to have a better visual-processing skills, may also be able to improve on those attributes faster than the average ...

Visual intelligence has nothing to do with being smart or having a high IQ, a new study has found. Researchers found intelligence does not guarantee a person’s ability to learn visual skills, such as ...

And now, the news that every parent dreads. Researchers are reporting that first-person-shooter video games -- the kind that require players to kill or maim enemies or monsters that pop out of nowhere ...