News tagged with primary visual

Attention and awareness uncoupled in brain imaging experiments

In everyday life, attention and awareness appear tightly interwoven. Attending to the scissors on the right side of your desk, you become aware of their attributes, for example the red handles. Vice versa, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

NeuroImage: Multiplexing in the visual brain

Imagine sitting in a train at the railway station looking outside: Without analyzing the relative motion of object contours across many different locations at the same time, it is often difficult to decide ...

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created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How the brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify new neurological deficit behind lazy eye

Researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science have identified a new neurological deficit behind amblyopia, or "lazy eye." Their findings, which appear in the most recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, shed a ...

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created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find explanation for blindsight

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rare phenomenon of blindsight has been known for a long time, but until now has never been understood. People with blindsight are effectively blind through damage to the primary visual ...

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created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Experience shapes the brain's circuitry throughout adulthood

The adult brain, long considered to be fixed in its wiring, is in fact remarkably dynamic. Neuroscientists once thought that the brain's wiring was fixed early in life, during a critical period beyond which changes were impossible. ...

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created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The scientific brain: Human brain processes predictable sensory input in particularly efficient manner

(PhysOrg.com) -- It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good science involves formulating a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Can we 'learn to see?': Study shows perception of invisible stimuli improves with training

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Perceptual learning relies on local motion signals to learn global motion

Researchers have long known of the brain's ability to learn based on visual motion input, and a recent study has uncovered more insight into where the learning occurs.

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created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rigorous visual training teaches the brain to see again after stroke (w/Video)

By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on a computer every day for several months, patients who had gone partially blind as a result of suffering a stroke were able to regain some vision, according to ...

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1