Search results for binocular rivalry:
Neural noise created during binocular rivalry
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates.
'Mind's eye' influences visual perception
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Jul 01, 2008 |
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Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ...
Wide heads give hammerheads exceptional stereo view
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Hammerhead sharks are some of the Ocean's most distinctive residents. 'Everyone wants to understand why they have this strange head shape,' says Michelle McComb from Florida Atlantic University. One possible ...
Large binocular telescope achieves first binocular light
Mar 06, 2008 |
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The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular" light.
Team IDs binocular vision gene
Sep 14, 2007 |
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In work that could lead to new treatments for sensory disorders in which people experience the strange phenomena of seeing better with one eye covered, MIT researchers report that they have identified the gene responsible ...
Researchers discover second depth-perception method in brain
Mar 16, 2008 |
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It's common knowledge that humans and other animals are able to visually judge depth because we have two eyes and the brain compares the images from each. But we can also judge depth with only one eye, and scientists have ...
Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision
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Aug 28, 2008 |
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The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered ...
Infantile esotropia linked to developmental delays
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Babies with an eye-alignment disorder called infantile esotropia have delays in motor development milestones, but development “catches up” after corrective surgery, reports a study in the April Journal of AAPOS (American ...
Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Color is normally thought of as a fundamental attribute of an object: a red Corvette, a blue lake, a pink flamingo. Yet despite this popular notion, new research suggests that our perception ...
LBT Captures Extremely Faint Light With Its First Mirror and Camera
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2007 |
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It was a small, barely visible glow among a myriad brighter stars and galaxies in the night sky.
Why is the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy so flat?
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Through some of the very first scientific observations with the brand-new Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona, an international team of astronomers has found that a recently discovered tiny companion ...
First science from the Large Binocular Telescope
Mar 15, 2007 |
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An international team headed by University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Peter M. Garnavich has reported the first scientific result from the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). The team imaged a distant “afterglow” ...
Gesture recognition
Dec 18, 2008 |
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A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. A related system for the able bodied could also be used to make virtual worlds more realistic. ...
Children with autism show slower pupil responses, study finds
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Autism affects 1 in 150 children today, making it more common than childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes and pediatric AIDS combined. Despite its widespread effect, autism is not well understood and there are ...
XMM-Newton's massive discovery
Aug 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be ...
