News tagged with brains visual
Scientists unmask brain's hidden potential
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Previous research has found that when vision is lost, a person's senses of touch and hearing become enhanced. But exactly how this happens has been unclear.
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Can we 'learn to see?': Study shows perception of invisible stimuli improves with training
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness. A new study in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's ...
Revealing the machinery underlying the 'plastic' juvenile brain
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Feb 28, 2007 |
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Among the central mysteries of neurobiology is what properties of the young brain enable it to so adeptly wire itself to adapt to experience—a quality known as plasticity. The extraordinary plasticity of the young brain occurs ...
Brain research shows past experience is invaluable for complex decision making
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have shown that past experience really does help when we have to make complex decisions based on uncertain or confusing information. ...
Crystal (eye) ball: Study says visual system equipped with 'future seeing powers'
May 15, 2008 |
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Catching a football. Maneuvering through a room full of people. Jumping out of the way when a golfer yells "fore." Most would agree these seemingly simple actions require us to perceive and quickly respond ...
Men better at distance vision due to hunter-gatherer past: study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Men are better at seeing things in the distance due to their hunter-gatherer past chasing animals, while women are better focusing on things at close range, a British study said Thursday.
Face facts: People don't stand out in crowds
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Why is it difficult to pick out even a familiar face in a crowd? We all experience this, but the phenomenon has been poorly understood until now. The results of a recent study may have implications for individuals with face-recognition ...
New Insight Into How Bees See
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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New research from Monash University bee researcher Adrian Dyer could lead to improved artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition.
Video games shown to improve vision
Mar 15, 2007 |
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According to a new study from the University of Rochester, playing action video games sharpens vision. In tests of visual acuity that assess the ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space, game players scored ...
Scientists show that language shapes perception
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in cognitive neuroscience (the science of how the brain works when we think) have shown that what our eyes see and what our brain interprets are two different things. Professor Guillaume Thierry, ...
Evolution of the visual system is key to abstract art
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool has discovered.
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