News tagged with direct gaze
Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings
In 2011 -- to the consternation of women everywhere -- a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast ...
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Older people less likely to fall if they pay attention to their feet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as grey hair and wrinkles are widely accepted as a natural part of ageing, so is an increased risk of falling, which can happen for many reasons and with devastating consequences, including increased ...
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Similar structures for face selectivity in human and monkey brains
(Medical Xpress) -- Face recognition and the interpretation of facial expressions and gaze direction play a key role in guiding the social behavior of human beings, and new study results point to similar mechanisms in macaques. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 28, 2011 |
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TV executives crave viewers who watch 2 screens
Forget the small screen and the big screen. The hottest new thing in television is the "second screen" - the one on the tablet computer or cell phone that an increasing number of viewers keep an eye on while they're watching ...
Feb 03, 2012 |
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In the brain, an earlier sign of autism
In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them. Although the researchers are careful to say that the study, reported online ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Weird gadgets at CES: Motorized unicycle, anyone?
A motorized, seat-less unicycle, a video game you control with your eyes, and a mind-reading headset that serves as a game controller were among the more bizarre gadgets being shown off at this year's International ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Study: Babies try lip-reading in learning to talk
Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Facing complexity in the left brain/right brain paradigm
The left brain/right brain dichotomy has been prominent on the pop psychology scene since Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry broached the subject in the 1960s. The left is analytical while the right is creative, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Surgeons perform better with eye movement training
(Medical Xpress) -- Surgeons can learn their skills more quickly if they are taught how to control their eye movements.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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What the brain sees after the eye stops looking
(Medical Xpress) -- When we gaze at a shape and then the shape disappears, a strange thing happens: We see an afterimage in the complementary color. Now a Japanese study has observed for the first time an equally strange ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Want to resist temptation? A new study suggests thinking might not always help you
(Medical Xpress) -- Uh-oh. Here comes temptation -- for a dieter, it's a sweet treat; an alcoholic, a beer; a married man, an attractive, available woman. How to defeat the impulse to gratify desire and stick to your long-term ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Robotic dragon, an unlikely teacher
David DeSteno, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern, and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, are examining how social robots can aid preschoolers ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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VISTA finds new globular star clusters
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly discovered globular clusters have been added to the total of just 158 known globular clusters in our Milky Way. They were found in new images from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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