News articles tagged with 'perception'
How bats 'hear' objects in their path
— 28 Nov 2011 19:26 | BiologyBy placing real and virtual objects in the flight paths of bats, scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Munich have shed new light on how echolocation works. Their research is…
It's not over when it's over: Storing sounds in the inner ear
— 6 Apr 2011 17:31 | HealthResearch shows that vibrations in the inner ear continue even after a sound has ended, perhaps serving as a kind of mechanical memory of recent sounds. In addition to contributing to…
Innovative technique gives vision researchers insight into how people recognise faces
— 17 Mar 2011 20:39 | HealthIt is no surprise to scientists that the largest social network on the web is called Facebook. Identifying people by their face is fundamental to our social interactions, one of the…
Learning to see consciously
— 9 Mar 2011 19:44 | HealthOur brains process many more stimuli than we become aware of. Often images enter our brain without being noticed: visual information is being processed, but does not reach consciousness,…
What a rat can tell us about touch
— 18 Feb 2011 18:20 | BiologyIn her search to understand one of the most basic human senses - touch - Mitra Hartmann turns to what is becoming one of the best studied model systems in neuroscience: the whiskers…
The real avatar
— 18 Feb 2011 17:59 | TechnologyThat feeling of being in, and owning, your own body is a fundamental human experience. But where does it originate and how does it come to be? Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist…
Expectations speed up conscious perception
— 3 Feb 2011 17:06 | HealthThe human brain works incredibly fast. However, visual impressions are so complex that their processing takes several hundred milliseconds before they enter our consciousness. Scientists…
Why older people are less astute drivers and how the answer could help us understand depression
— 26 Jan 2011 18:13 | HealthWhen elderly drivers get behind the wheel, they often confront the harrowing reality that they cannot easily see other cars, pedestrians, or cyclists moving around them. This frightening…
IU study: Humans' critical ability to throw long distances aided by an illusion
— 24 Jan 2011 15:16 | HealthCan't help moulding some snow into a ball and hurling it or tossing a stone as far into a lake as you can? New research from Indiana University and the University of Wyoming shows how…
'1-drop rule' appears to persist for biracial individuals
— 9 Dec 2010 16:45 | HealthThe centuries-old 'one-drop rule' assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorisation of people like Barack Obama,…