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The domain of cognitive enhancement is vast, spanning behavioral, biochemical, and physical applications. The techniques are as numerous as are the limitations: poorly conducted studies, ethically ambiguous practices, limited positive effects, significant side-effects, high financial costs, significant time investment, unequal accessibility, and lack of transfer. This article provides empirical foundations and supporting evidence for the use of a novel tool – 3-dimentional multiple object tracking – in a cognitive enhancement context. An overview of current literature for cognitive enhancement, as well as the foundations upon which this tool is based, are presented herein. Proposed domains for enhancement include information processing, attention, working memory, inhibition, and executive functions. Improvements have been demonstrated in attention, working memory and visual information processing in healthy adults; for biological motion processing in healthy aging subjects; on-field performance in soccer players; and in attention for a population with a neurodevelopmental deficit. More work in these and in other fields remains a requisite for further use and development of this technique.