When you see people with their heads buried in their phones, possibly playing a game like Bejeweled Blitz, don’t judge them too harshly. New research finds the visual search and matching app may have potential as a brain training tool. New England Public Radio’s Carrie Healy talked about the study, by UMass psychologist Susan Whitbourne.
For more on the brain, NEPR’s Karen Brown has found that some other services marketed as helping the brain…come up well short in the research department.