India rounded out the top five with 4,293 points, proving its strong presence in memory sports. Indian memory athletes are known for their quick calculation and pattern recognition skills.

As noted above, the study explores the limits of visual working memory—our capacity to hold onto images of shapes and colors for brief periods of time.

Once you've listened to the audio, take the short quiz to test your memory. Now, try this similar test below that includes only images, with no sound.

Researchers have found that a simple test of working memory capacity strongly predicts a person's performance on a battery of intelligence tests that measure everything from abstract problem ...

The "apple test"—asking participants to close their eyes and picture an apple—has become a quick way to test how vividly an individual can recall memories.

Home Self The Quick Visual Test That Reveals If You Have Perfect Short-Term Memory Your short-term memory has a limited capacity, so choose what you store wisely.

This was a quick test of your visual recognition memory. You had to look at photos, store them in your visual memory and decide if they had changed when you saw them a few seconds later.

The results of all three tests showed that visual memory is surprisingly detailed. In the novel test, subjects correctly identified the correct image 93 percent of the time.

In a U.S. military-funded pilot study published last year, scientists demonstrated that they could use implanted electrodes to record how participants’ brains responded to visual memory tests.