News tagged with visual
Scientists reveal secret of girl with 'all seeing eye'
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how a 10-year-old girl born with half a brain is able to see normally through one eye. The youngster, from Germany, has both fields of vision in one eye and is the ...
Scientists unmask brain's hidden potential
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Previous research has found that when vision is lost, a person's senses of touch and hearing become enhanced. But exactly how this happens has been unclear.
New Features Found in Einstein's Brain
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When one thinks of Einstein, it is natural to assume that obviously his brain differed from that of the average person. And, ever since Thomas Harvey, a pathologist in Princeton, removed Einste ...
Adult brain can change within seconds
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain can adapt to changing demands even in adulthood, but MIT neuroscientists have now found evidence of it changing with unsuspected speed. Their findings suggest that the brain has a network ...
3D Graphics Can Geometrically Guide Your Attention
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When you gaze at a painting, the first thing that catches your eye is usually not an accident. Since the beginning of art, painters have used strategic techniques to guide a viewer’s attention ...
In game of tennis, seeing isn't always believing
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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A universal bias in the way people perceive moving objects means that tennis referees are more likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in," according to a new report in the October 28th ...
Neurobiologists discover individuals who 'hear' movement
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Individuals with synesthesia perceive the world in a different way from the rest of us. Because their senses are cross-activated, some synesthetes perceive numbers or letters as having colors or days of the week as possessing ...
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 ...
Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part of the brain to another.
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 ...
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 ...
New theory of visual computation reveals how brain makes sense of natural scenes
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model that provides insight into the function of the brain's visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive ...
Study suggests human visual system could make powerful computer
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Since the idea of using DNA to create faster, smaller, and more powerful computers originated in 1994, scientists have been scrambling to develop successful ways to use genetic code for computation. Now, new ...
Blindsight: How brain sees what you do not see
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Blindsight is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it. A research team led by Prof. Tadashi Isa and Dr. Masatoshi ...
Best Visual Illusion of the Year: How a Curveball Works
May 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
