RTS games, which require players to manage resources, build bases, and engage in strategic combat, provide a rich environment ...

Test your brain power with this addictive new game from the New York Times—and find out the best strategies for... It might not seem like there's enough information to solve these logic puzzles ...

An anatomically defined retinotopy atlas was applied to the inflated cortical surface for each participant in order to delineate the borders of V1, V2 and V3, and also each degree of eccentricity up ...

They argued that research did not back assertions that brain games improved memory ... Research also has shown that exercise affects brain plasticity and helps protect memory and thinking skills.

You learn something new every day. And you don't even have to attend a class to do so. You might learn something by accident, ...

Neuronal plasticity is a fundamental process in neuronal development and recovery from brain disorders. The Trophin lab focuses on the role of neurotrophic factors, particularly Brain-Derived ...

These 800,000 lab-grown brain cells can play a 1970s video game, albeit badly Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong.

Recent research highlights the potential of targeting the brain’s metabolism to treat Alzheimer’s disease, a condition that ...

This requires brain plasticity, practice and knowledge; there is, perhaps, more going on in the brains of these sporting elites than in the minds of the media lightweights who mock them.

Though folks of a certain age often dismiss online gaming as an activity that stunts players’ social skills and can lead to sleep deprivation and too much time spent in a sedentary state, in ...

While the brain's plasticity begins to degrade in later life ... "To be a truly creative chess player," she says, "probably just loving the game and playing it ten hours a day may be more ...