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Yahoo! had an interesting article about Brain Fitness being the future industry in healthcare.  Anyone here in neuroscience and what do you think about this? The story about the robot reminds me of the simon says game back in the day with having to repeat the sequences of lights. 

Did you know that (new research (published in the journal Science) suggests Visual memory that visual memory is much more flexible than scientists have previously thought.

Researchers conclude that working visual memory tends to take in the whole scene, and then remember a few important details. Our visual memory tends to be flexible in how many elements it remembers, based on our level of interest and focused attention.

This is an important finding because it suggests how we can help improve memory- maybe through using visual methods rather than verbal or written words. What do you think? And hypnosis could play a big part.