News tagged with tactile motion
How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It
In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- like rocks -- appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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The cerebellum as navigation assistant: A cognitive map enables orientation
The cerebellum is far more intensively involved in helping us navigate than previously thought. To move and learn effectively in spatial environments our brain, and particularly our hippocampus, creates a "cognitive" map ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Flies' flight patterns rely on sense of smell
(PhysOrg.com) -- If a fruit fly gets a whiff of a rotting banana, it does everything it can to get to the location of the potential feast. That includes not only beating its wings faster, but overriding its ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Reach out and touch 3D characters with RePro3D (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lonely gamers who have felt the pain of being separated by a screen from their favorite personalities now have a way to reach out and touch their game characters, and that new way is RePro3D. ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 17, 2011 |
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Tactile technology guaranteed to send shivers down your spine
A new tactile technology developed at Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP), called Surround Haptics, makes it possible for video game players and film viewers to feel a wide variety of sensations, from the smoothness of a finger ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Ubisoft jumps on Nintendo's 'Wii U'
French videogame titan Ubisoft is throwing its weight behind Nintendo's second-generation Wii U videogame console.
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Robotic hand nearly identical to a human one (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to finding the single best tool for building, digging, grasping, drawing, writing, and many other tasks, nothing beats the human hand. Human hands have evolved over millions ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Medical robotics to improve heart surgery
In a truly interdisciplinary effort, a team of biomedical scientists and engineers from the University of Houston (UH) and physicians from The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI) are collaborating ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Younger brains are easier to rewire
About a decade ago, scientists studying the brains of blind people made a surprising discovery: A brain region normally devoted to processing images had been rewired to interpret tactile information, such as input from the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Researchers find the blind use visual brain area to improve other senses
People who have been blind from birth make use of the visual parts of their brain to refine their sensation of sound and touch, according to an international team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Georgetown University ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Robots get an artificial skin
Robots are breaking barriers: Long banished behind steel barriers, they are entering new fields of application such as the manufacturing, household and healthcare sectors. The requisite safety can be provided ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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