News tagged with visual science
Learning high-performance tasks with no conscious effort may soon be possible (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress) -- New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Team creates computerized method for matching images in photos, paintings, sketches
Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and in winter, or a photograph and a painting of the same cathedral, by using a technique that analyzes the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 06, 2011 |
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New research sheds light on how we see family resemblance in faces
Whether comparing a man and a woman or a parent and a baby, we can still see when two people of different age or sex are genetically related. How do we know that people are part of a family? Findings from a new study published ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Nerve cells key to making sense of our senses
The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 20, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists unlock shared brain codes
A team of neuroscientists at Dartmouth College has shown that different individuals' brains use the same, common neural code to recognize complex visual images.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Researchers find new genetic cause of blinding eye disease
Combining the expertise of several different labs, University of Iowa researchers have found a new genetic cause of the blinding eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and, in the process, discovered an entirely new version ...
Aug 09, 2011 |
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In-shell pistachios: The original 'slow food?'
Two studies published in the current on-line issue of the journal Appetite indicate that consuming in-shell pistachios is a weight-wise approach to healthy snacking, offering unique mindful eating benefits to help curb c ...
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Speed limit on babies' vision
Babies have far less ability to recognize rapidly changing images than adults, according to research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The results show that while infants can perceive flicker or movement, they ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Scientists make brain signal discovery
(Medical Xpress) -- A Murdoch University scientist is closer to understanding why early brain development is so critical to mental health and function in the long term.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 06, 2011 |
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A little practice can change the brain in a lasting way: study
A little practice goes a long way, according to researchers at McMaster University, who have found the effects of practice on the brain have remarkable staying power.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 27, 2011 |
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NTU unveils newest 3-D technologies for real-world applications
Point your mobile phone camera at a building and it will display the building's history, elaborate on its architecture and even highlight dignitaries who have visited it before.
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Your attention please: 'Rewarding' objects can't be ignored
The world is a dazzling array of people, objects, sounds, smells and events: far too much for us to fully experience at any moment. So our attention may automatically be snagged by something startling, such ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears
Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 16, 2011 |
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New mathematical model of brain information processing predicts some of vision peculiarities
The human retina -- the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals -- has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount of data. High-level ...
Jan 28, 2011 |
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How video games stretch the limits of our visual attention
They are often accused of being distracting, but recent research has found that action packed video games like Halo and Call of Duty can enhance visual attention, the ability that allows us to focus on relevant visual information. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2010 |
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