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Although the mechanism is not clear, it appears that in this type of dementia, language is not required for--and may even inhibit--certain types of visual creativity. "We typically don't think that something could be getting better," says Miller. Chang's experience underscores the fact that dementia is rarely a simple, one-dimensional disease. It also reminds us to treasure what is spared. --By David Bjerklie
...study in last week's Nature suggests--sorry, parents--that Grand Theft Auto III, left, Counter-Strike and other video games that require players to shoot bad guys and slay monsters may improve the kind of visual skills needed for, say, driving a car or even being a soldier. In the study, men 18 to 23 were tested for their ability to identify flashing cues, switch their attention rapidly and count objects approaching from many directions. The result: gamers performed up to 50% better than nonplayers, a finding that researchers suspect applies to younger kids as well. To rule...
...result, which hit video stores June 3, is a variety pack of visual styles, ranging from the hyper-realistic computer graphics employed in Final Flight of the Osiris, to the dreamy, hand-drawn doodles of Kid's Story. Each short expands the Matrix universe in ways that the plot-bound live-action films could not. The Wachowski-written Second Renaissance, Parts 1 and 2, mini-epics in their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard...
...worked as a research assistant in Kosslyn’s lab, working on a study of differences in visual mental imagery by testing about 30 subjects on visual imagery tasks and performing statistical analysis on the results. She also assisted a study of frontal lobe activation in infants jointly undertaken by Harvard Medical School students and graduate students at Harvard’s Laboratory of Infant Study...
...housed at the old Bunting Institute buildings on Concord Ave. to an area closer to their main operations in Radcliffe Yard. While she says that plans are very tentative, several OFA administrators say these buildings, if acquired by FAS, could possibly make an good home for theater practice and visual arts...