Imagine you’re designing a video game level. You want to make sure it’s challenging, but not too difficult that players get frustrated. To help determine the right balance, you gather data on how long it takes players to complete different sections of the level. In a similar way, researchers conducted a study to measure cognitive […]
Published on May 25, 2022
Imagine your eyes doing a dance, trying to make sense of the world around you. That’s what researchers did in a study on patients with mild glaucoma. They wanted to understand how the brain processes visual information when there is damage to the optic nerve. They used a technique called binocular rivalry, where participants viewed […]
Published on May 25, 2022
Imagine the brain as a bustling city. In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, some areas of this city experience abnormal connectivity patterns that may indicate the onset of cognitive decline. A recent study dived into how functional connectivity density (FCD) differs in subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), two conditions […]
Published on May 25, 2022