45 seconds, second by second
Every pop, miss and wrong pop on one line. Look for clusters of red: they usually show when the screen got busy, or the moment the target colour changed on Hard.
Pop-out versus one-by-one search
Anne Treisman showed in 1980 that a target differing by one feature, like colour, seems to leap out at once, however crowded the screen. But when the target is defined by a combination of features, you have to check items one at a time. Switch the mode and try to find the target.
Picking the right thing out of a crowd
Selective attention means boosting what matters and turning down everything else. Bubble Pop makes you do that continuously as the screen keeps changing.
Three places this skill turns up
Each one leans on a different part of what the game trains.
The brain areas doing the work
Step through each area, or tap one below. The matching marker grows on the brain; dashed markers sit deep inside.
