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Boosting Older Adults’ Vision Through Training
Just a weeks’ worth of training can improve vision in older adults, according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings show that training boosted older adults’
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Could Virtual-Reality Headsets Like the Oculus Rift Reduce Neck Pain?
New York Magazine: Pain is tricky. At its most basic level, it’s our body’s way of alerting us to possible danger to our well-being, but all sorts of sensory and psychological cues can make pain
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Want to Grab Drivers’ Attention? Use Road Signs Showing More Action
On average, car crashes kill an American pedestrian every 2 hours and injure one every 7 minutes, according to statistics from the CDC. A new study suggests changing road signs to depict more motion—a pedestrian
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Blocks and Puzzles May Help Children Learn Spatial Skills
Children who play frequently with puzzles, blocks, and board games tend to have better spatial reasoning abilities than those who don’t, according to data from a nationally representative study published in Psychological Science. “Our findings
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Neck Pain Can Be Changed Through Altered Visual Feedback
Using virtual reality to distort how far the neck is turned can actually alter the experience of chronic neck pain.
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Unraveling Mysteries of Safe Steering with Behavioral Science
We may take it for granted, but exactly how we steer a car has remained a mystery to researchers for nearly 70 years. The prevailing theory for how we steer towards a target was initially