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

Medicine & Health / Research

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

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 ...


Perceptual learning relies on local motion signals to learn global motion

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.


Rigorous visual training teaches the brain to see again after stroke

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

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

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 ...


Blindsight: How brain sees what you do not see

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Blindsight is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it. A research team led by Prof. Tadashi Isa and Dr. Masatoshi ...


Sound adds speed to visual perception

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created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The traditional view of individual brain areas involved in perception of different sensory stimuli—i.e., one brain region involved in hearing and another involved in seeing—has been thrown into doubt in recent years. A new ...