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'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

'Mind's eye' influences visual perception

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created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 7

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 ...





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Neural noise created during binocular rivalry

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates.


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Our nostrils share a rivalry too, study finds

Biology / Other

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Your nostrils may seem to be a happy pair, working together to pick up scents. However, a study published online on August 20th in Current Biology reveals that there can actually be a kind of rivalry betwee ...


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Large binocular telescope achieves first binocular light

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 2

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

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 14, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 1

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 ...


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Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision

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created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (190) | comments 26

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

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


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Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(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 ...


Stem cell research puts interstate rivalry on hold

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Victoria and New South Wales have put aside their competitive interstate rivalry to collaborate on a stem cell research project, as announced by Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings and NSW Minister for Science and Medical ...


LBT Captures Extremely Faint Light With Its First Mirror and Camera

LBT Captures Extremely Faint Light With Its First Mirror and Camera

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 12, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

It was a small, barely visible glow among a myriad brighter stars and galaxies in the night sky.



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