News tagged with eye movements
Watching me, watching you
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Cheap, quick bedside 'eye movement' exam outperforms MRI for diagnosing stroke in patients
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 18, 2009 |
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In a small "proof of principle" study, stroke researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Illinois have found that a simple, one-minute eye movement exam performed at the bedside worked better than an MRI to distinguish ...
Eye Movements May Help Detect Autism
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most parents will attest that infants convey their needs and interests in a variety of ways, many times without ever making a sound. For researchers in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, ...
You can believe your eyes: New insights into memory without conscious awareness
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists may have discovered a way to glean information about stored memories by tracking patterns of eye movements, even when an individual is unable (or perhaps even unwilling) to report what they remember. ...
New study suggests the brain predicts what eyes in motion will see
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 25, 2009 |
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When the eyes move, objects in the line of sight suddenly jump to a different place on the retina, but the mind perceives the scene as stable and continuous. A new study reports that the brain predicts the consequences of ...
Facial expressions show language barriers too
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People from East Asia tend to have a tougher time than those from European countries telling the difference between a face that looks fearful versus surprised, disgusted versus angry, and ...
Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to people with disabilities (w/ Video)
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology that allows gamers to control game functions with only their eyes is helping to open virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft to people with severe motor disabilities.
Looking at language
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 04, 2009 |
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The study of the neural basis of language has largely focused on regions in the cortex - the outer brain layers thought by many researchers to have expanded during human evolution. Research at Brown University's Department ...
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we ...
Scientists shed new light on cause of inherited movement disorder
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 22, 2009 |
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University of Utah School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center have found strong evidence that abnormal calcium signaling in neurons may play an important role ...
New study aims at early diagnosis for ADHD and Parkinson's disease
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Eye movement tests developed by Queen's University researchers to aid in understanding childhood brain development and healthy aging may also help in the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and detecting ...
Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to people with disabilities (w/ Video)
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology that allows gamers to control game functions with only their eyes is helping to open virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft to people with severe motor disabilities.
Study discovers clues into how eyes search
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Like the robots in the "Terminator" movies, our eyes move methodically through a scene when seeking out an object. If we don't immediately find what we're searching for, our attention leaves the already-scanned area behind ...
Discoveries shed new light on how the brain processes what the eye sees
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how ...
Scientists discover neurons that 'mirror' the attention of others
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
