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September 29, 2012 04:49 am GMT
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Cute Images Make Us 44% Sharper [STUDY]
In the best news yet for viral cat videos and pictures of babies hugging puppies, researchers at Japan's Hiroshima University found that people actually focus better shortly after they've been shown "cute" images.
Researchers performed three experiments where they showed subjects a variety of images that included food, people, and adult and baby animals.
In a fine-motor dexterity test, 48 subjects (all between the ages of 18-and 22 and all right handed) played a children's game very much akin to "Operation." For those unfamiliar with the game, you use tweezers to remove plastic body parts from metal-encased "cavities" without touching the edges and setting off a buzzer.
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