What?!?!? So, after years of being told playing video games is bad for us, or at best a monumental waste of time that could be better spent elsewhere, it turns out that experience with videogames can improve a variety of cognitive abilities. One of these is visual attention. Now, visual processing or attention is a [...]

Vision occurs when light enters the cornea (the outer covering of the eye) and travels through the pupil (the opening) to focus on the retina, which translates the light into nerve impulses that are sent via the optic nerve to the visual cortex in the brain, creating images. But how we “see” the world is [...]