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Test for picture memory

You fit keep picture for your mind? Squares go bright, den go dark: tap di ones wey shine. Each level get one extra square. Free, no sign-up.

Na Helibrain team write amRobert(English), PhD student for biophysics, don review amDem publish am Dem last review am

Wetin dis test dey measure

E dey measure short-time memory for wetin eye see: how much of one pattern you fit keep for mind after e don disappear. Dem design am from the Visual Patterns Test, wey people dey see grid with some squares filled, den mark di filled squares for empty grid 1.

Di researchers wey build dat test show say remembering pattern wey you see all at once no be the same as remembering sequence of places: some people wey get brain injury no do well for one kind test but do normal for di other one 1. Di test for sequence memory for dis site dey cover di other kind.

How di test dey work

  • Di squares go shine together for 1.2 seconds. Den tap every square wey shine, any order.
  • Level 1 dey light 3 squares, and every level add one. Di grid dey grow as you move on, so more places dey to check.
  • 3 wrong taps for one round go make you lose one life, and you get 3 lives. After you lose life, you go play di same level again with new pattern.

How to understand your score

Your level na di highest level wey you finish, and “squares remembered” na how many squares shine for dat level. Some patterns make easy shape and some look like dem arrange am anyhow, so your level fit change from one try to another. Dis na web game wey research test inspire, e no be di clinical test itself, so you no fit compare di scores with clinical results.

How to get di best from am

Play when everywhere calm, and use di same device each time: bigger screen make di grid easier to check. Practice dey help for any memory game, so di pattern across plenty tries tell you more than one score.

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Cite dis page: Test for picture memory. Helibrain. 2026. https://helibrain.com/pcm/visual-memory-test. CC BY 4.0.

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How this test works

This test measures how much of a pattern you can hold in mind after it disappears. Some squares of a grid light up together for 1.2 seconds and then go dark. Tap all the squares that were lit, in any order. Level 1 lights 3 squares, each level adds one, and the grid grows as you go. Three wrong taps lose a life, and you have 3 lives. Your score is the highest level you finished. It is modelled on a pattern memory task described in 1999.

Version 1 · Cite this test:

Helibrain (2026). Visual memory test, v1. https://helibrain.com/visual-memory-test/methods

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Sources

  1. Della Sala S, Gray C, Baddeley A, Allamano N, Wilson L (1999). Pattern span: tool for separating memory for wetin eye see and space. Neuropsychologia 37(10):1189–1199.

How we take make dis page: di Helibrain team write am from di studies wey dem list above, and Robert(English) (PhD student for biophysics) review am on 3 Nọvẹ́mba 2026. We dey update am wen di sources change.