News tagged with visual agnosia


Brain's object recognition system activated by touch alone

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Portions of the brain that activate when people view pictures of objects compared to scrambled images can also be activated by touch alone, confirms a new report published online on May 28th in Current Biology.





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The time it takes to reassemble the world

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 24, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A few glimpses are enough to perceive a seamless and richly detailed visual world. But instead of "photographic snapshots”, information about the color, shape and motion of an object is pulled apart and sent ...


Noncorrectable vision problems associated with shorter lifespan in older adults

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Visual problems that cannot be corrected are associated with increased risk of death among individuals between the ages of 49 and 74, and all visual impairments may be associated with the risk of death in older adults, according ...


Looming sounds boost visual perception

Looming sounds boost visual perception

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it’s the sound of a speeding car approaching from out of the blue, or the faint echo of footsteps following you along a dark street, such looming sounds not only make our ears prick ...


Pink Visual software lets iPhones map sexual exploits

Technology / Software

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Adult entertainment studio Pink Visual on Tuesday unleashed software that lets people use iPhones to map sexual exploits.


Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...


No such thing as a break in a curveball?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

The answer to the question of whose curveball breaks harder -- that of the Yankees' A.J. Burnett or the Phillies' Cole Hamels -- may be neither.


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.


Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning

Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But with advances in computer graphics capabilities, more recent cognitive theory related to multimedia learning suggests that very ...


Increased success a 'virtual' certainty for rugby players (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rugby players worldwide could benefit from a new virtual reality training programme created at Queen's University Belfast. Team members from Ulster Rugby have been working with researchers in the School of Psychology at Queen's ...



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