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Imagination beats practice in boosting visual search performance

May 18, 2015 by

Practice may not make perfect, but visualization might. New research shows that people who imagined a visual target before having to pick it out of a group of distracting items were faster at finding the target than those who did an actual practice run beforehand.

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