News tagged with visual experiences


MIT develops camera for the blind

Researchers develop camera for the blind

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Elizabeth Goldring smiles as she shows a visitor photos she's taken — and can see — with her blind eye.





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Best Visual Illusion of the Year: How a Curveball Works

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visual illusions sometimes seem to have a magical element to them, but they're actually just the brain's way of interpreting reality. In an effort to promote public knowledge of cognitive ...


Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...


Impaired brain plasticity linked to Angelman syndrome learning deficits

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How might disruption of a single gene in the brain cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder? Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of ...


Listening to pleasant music could help restore vision in stroke patients, suggests study

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Patients who have lost part of their visual awareness following a stroke can show an improved ability to see when they are listening to music they like, according to a new study published today in the journal Proceedings of ...


Out-of-body experiences may be caused by arousal system disturbances in brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 05, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Having an out-of-body experience may seem far-fetched to some, but for those with arousal system disturbances in their brains, it may not be a far off idea that they could sense they were really outside their own body watching ...


Hallucinations in the flash of an eye

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Dominic H. ffytche at the Institute of Psychiatry in London reviews what we do know and moves the field forward, by introducing a new experimental approach to studying hallucinations as they occur.


Scientists narrow search for genes associated with the ability to 'see' sounds

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study identifies specific chromosomal regions linked to auditory visual synaesthesia, a neurological condition characterized by seeing colors in response to sounds. The research, published online on February 5th in ...


Findings about veracity of peripheral vision could lead to better robotic eyes (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Two Kansas State University psychology researchers have found that although central vision allows our eyes to discern the details of a scene, our peripheral vision is most important for telling us what type of scene we're ...


Study suggests Buddhist deity meditation temporarily augments visuospatial abilities

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Meditation has been practiced for centuries, as a way to calm the soul and bring about inner peace. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, there is now ev ...


People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates

People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project has shown that people who perceive numbers visually, and who see sequences of numbers as visual patterns, have better memories for dates and events in the past than ...



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