News tagged with visual stimulus

Jun 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates.

Brain mechanisms for behavioral flexibility

Apr 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

New research provides insight into how the brain can execute different actions in response to the same stimulus. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that i ...

Sound adds speed to visual perception

Aug 12, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 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 ...

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Reward elicits unconscious learning in humans

Mar 11, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 12th issue of the journal Neuron, demonstrates that stimul ...

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

Feb 18, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 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. ...

Decoding short-term memory with fMRI

Feb 21, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers can see just what information people are holding in memory based ...

Touch helps make the connection between sight and hearing

Mar 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The sense of touch allows us to make a better connection between sight and hearing and therefore helps adults to learn to read. This is what has been shown by the team of Édouard Gentaz, CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire ...

Visual learning study challenges common belief on attention

Mar 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

A visual learning study by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston indicates that viewers can learn a great deal about objects in their field of vision even without paying attention. The findings ...

Visual attention: How the brain makes the most of the visible world

Mar 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The visual system has limited capacity and cannot process everything that falls onto the retina. Instead, the brain relies on attention to bring salient details into focus and filter out background clutter. ...

How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It

Apr 03, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 1

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 ...

Looming sounds boost visual perception

Oct 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (8) | 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 ...

Seeing a brain as it learns to see

Oct 22, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (15) | 0

A brain isn't born fully organized. It builds its abilities through experience, making physical connections between neurons and organizing circuits to store and retrieve information in milliseconds for years afterwards.

Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow