Object Tracking Test

How to Play 👁️ Object Tracking Test

The Object Tracking Test measures your ability to simultaneously follow multiple moving targets with your attention — a skill researchers call Multiple Object Tracking, or MOT. Here is how each round works. Eight identical grey balls appear on a dark arena. A number of them briefly glow blue — these are your targets. Study them carefully because you need to remember which ones they are. Then all the balls start moving in every direction, bouncing off the walls, constantly switching positions. The glowing effect disappears and all balls look identical. Your job is to keep tracking the highlighted balls with your eyes as they weave through the distractors. When the movement stops, click the balls that were originally highlighted. Get them all right and you advance to the next level. The number of targets increases with each level, and the balls move faster too, making it progressively harder. Most adults can reliably track three to four objects simultaneously. Research by cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn showed that humans have roughly four to five "slots" of attentional tracking capacity, which he called FINSTs — Fingers of Instantiation — a kind of pre-attentive spotlight your brain assigns to moving objects. Action game players consistently outperform non-gamers on this test, often by two to three levels, because their games train exactly this skill.

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