News tagged with perceptual mechanism
Researchers identify parallel mechanism monkeys and humans use to recognize faces
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating ...
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Researchers uncover basis for perceptual learning
Aug 02, 2006 |
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The artist's trained eye can detect distinctions others can't; musicians pick up subtle changes in tone lost on the nonmusical. Brain researchers call these abilities perceptual learning.
Researchers shed light on the brain mechanism responsible for processing of speech
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech ...
Novelty drives choice behavior in humans
Jun 25, 2008 |
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New research suggests that novelty drives choice behavior , even when the degree of familiarity with an option is completely unrelated to choice outcome. The research, published by Cell Press in the June 26th issue of the ...
Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2009 |
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It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...
'Mind's eye' influences visual perception
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Jul 01, 2008 |
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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 ...
Rising above the din: Attention makes sensory signals stand out amidst the background noise in the brain
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies studying visual attention ...
Digital divide: Psychologists suggest ways to include the aging population in the tech revolution
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Technology is no longer what it used to be: Computers have replaced typewriters and landlines are in rapid decline. Technological advances are being made every day, making many of our lives easier and allowing information ...
Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systems
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated resear ...
Solving the 50-year-old puzzle of thalidomide
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Research into the controversial drug thalidomide reveals that the mechanism through which the drug causes limb defects is the same process which causes it to damage internal organs and other tissues. The article, published ...
Mechanism and function of humor identified by new evolutionary theory
Jun 27, 2008 |
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A new publication answers centuries' old questions regarding the mechanism and function of humour, identifying the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and ...
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