News tagged with visual
Fish vision discovery makes waves in natural selection
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an ...
Findings about veracity of peripheral vision could lead to better robotic eyes (w/ Video)
Oct 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Increased success a 'virtual' certainty for rugby players (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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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 ...
Like humans, monkeys fall into the 'uncanny valley'
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncanny valley." The scientists have found that monkeys ...
More infants surviving pre-term births results in higher rates of eye problems
Oct 12, 2009 |
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As more extremely pre-term infants survive in Sweden, an increasing number of babies are experiencing vision problems caused by abnormalities involving the retina, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of ...
Noncorrectable vision problems associated with shorter lifespan in older adults
Oct 12, 2009 |
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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 ...
Scans show learning 'sculpts' the brain's connections
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, ...
A road of no return: Team implements the first '1-way roads' for light
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Light readily bounces off obstacles in its path. Some of these reflections are captured by our eyes, thus participating in the visual perception of the objects around us. In contrast to this usual behavior ...
Babies see it coming
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Do infants only start to crawl once they are physically able to see danger coming? Or is it that because they are more mobile, they develop the ability to sense looming danger? According to Ruud van der Weel and Audrey van ...
Rising above the din: Attention makes sensory signals stand out amidst the background noise in the brain
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies studying visual attention ...
Perceptual learning relies on local motion signals to learn global motion
Sep 21, 2009 |
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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.
Out of darkness, sight: How the brain learns to see
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cases of restored vision after a lifetime of blindness, though exceedingly rare, provide a unique opportunity to address several fundamental questions regarding brain function. After being ...
You're never too old to learn
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Dr. Lixia Yang (above) and her co-author, Ralf Krampe of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, found that seniors were able to retain 50 per cent of concepts they learned almost a year before.
Microsoft swaps pictures for text in some searches
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to display some search results as galleries of moveable images instead of text links, part of its ongoing attempt to differentiate its Bing search engine from Google.
Visual detection: new neural circuits identified in the retina
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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The detection of approaching objects, such as looming predators, is necessary for survival. Which neurons and nerve circuits mediate this function? A new type of nerve cell, sensitive to approaching motion, has recently been ...
