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Dual Tracker puts moving dots in two separate zones and asks you to follow a target in each simultaneously. When everything freezes, you click the two you were tracking. Sixty seconds of this is genuinely tiring — it is the multiple-object-tracking paradigm used in attention research, split across two areas so you cannot rely on one field of view.
Target dots are highlighted briefly in both zones.
The highlight disappears and every dot starts moving.
Keep both targets tracked as they move among identical distractors.
When the motion freezes, click the target in each zone.
Sixty seconds of rounds; both must be right to score.
Divided visual attention across separate regions. Attention can be split between locations, but the capacity is small and it degrades fast — which is exactly what makes the two-zone version so much harder than the one-zone one.
Widen your gaze rather than flicking between zones. Peripheral tracking handles this better than repeated saccades.
Anchor each target to a screen landmark when it passes one — a corner or an edge gives you a recovery point.
If you lose one, protect the other. Two wrong is much worse than one right.
Blink deliberately in the first second of movement, when the dots are still near where they started.
The research range is roughly three to five in a single field. Splitting across two separate zones lowers it further, which is why this version is hard.
It is that paradigm, adapted into two zones. The single-zone version is Follow the Dot.
It targets the same divided visual attention, but transfer to a real task is unproven. Treat it as a measure rather than a training programme.
Fast dots cross and separate quickly, so there are fewer prolonged ambiguous moments where two dots sit close together.