News tagged with averted gaze


A direct gaze enhances face perception

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Gaze direction is significant for the processing of visual information from the human face. Researchers in an Academy of Finland funded research project have discovered that the visual system of the brain processes another ...





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Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

A new study may explain why the England soccer team keeps losing in penalty shootouts - and could help the team address the problem in time for the World Cup 2010. Research by the University of Exeter shows ...


A general view of one of the interactive video installations at the "Decode: Digital Design Sensations" exhibition

Interactive digital art show opens in London

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The creative side of information technology went on display in London this week, in an arresting new interactive show including glowing reeds and a blinking mechanical eye.


Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology professors look at movement to study communication and cognition.


The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field ...


Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD (AP)

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.


Metallica debuts finger-tapping app in iPhone (AP)

Metallica debuts finger-tapping app in iPhone

Technology / Software

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Headbangers will have a reason to steady their gaze a bit starting Tuesday, when rock band Metallica makes its way onto iPhones with a finger-tapping music app called "Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica."


Learning the risks for stroke -- and taking action

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The theme of this year's World Stroke Day on 29th October is "What can I do?". As the World Stroke Organization says, everyone can do something: learn to recognise symptoms and take action, learn to recognise the risk factors ...


Watching me, watching you

Watching me, watching you

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software that tracks shoppers' eye movements as they browse supermarket shelves may seem a bit Big Brother, but the latest technology in 'eye-tracking', which monitors what grabs a person's ...


Gender Schemas Affect Women in Science, Says Expert

Gender Schemas Affect Women in Science, Says Expert

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gender equity expert Virginia Valian discusses women's advancement in the STEM disciplines.


Brazilian Alini dos Santos Silva, 28, points at the map of the three "favelas" she and a team of neighbours designed

Rio youth use GPS phones to put favelas on map

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet.



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