The exercise challenges your visual-spatial skills and your visual memory. The primary areas of the brain exercised in this exercise are the right parietal cortex and the right temporal cortex. Visual-spatial skills allow us to perceive objects and the spatial relationships among them visually. Spatial memory is a subcategory of visual memory because it relies on a cognitive or mental map whereby an individual can acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and characteristics in one’s spatial environment.

Good visual-spatial skills are needed to orient yourself in a neighborhood, to retrace your steps through a crowd, to remember landmarks, and also to be able to recognize that you are in an unfamiliar environment. Individuals may use the same skills in American in Paris when they go to a large parking lot and have to remember where they parked their car, or when they are traveling, and they have to remember the location of their hotel. 

A very high degree of control is available. The parameters that can be selected are:

• The number of cities (1, 2, 3, or 4)
• The choice of cities (manual or random), the number of stops (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8)
• The memorization time per stop (unlimited, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, or 3 seconds)
• The information recall time (unlimited, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, or 3 seconds)
• The presence or not of a distraction task.

Over 1,600 unique exercise configurations and significant data set depth.