News articles tagged with 'visual'
What the brain saw
— 31 Mar 2011 15:18 | HealthThe moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurones in the retina encode what we 'see' has been a tricky one. A key obstacle to understanding…
Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears
— 17 Mar 2011 17:39 | HealthDr 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…
The brain as a 'task machine'
— 18 Feb 2011 16:53 | HealthThe portion of the brain responsible for visual reading doesn't require vision at all, according to a new study published online on February 17 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.…
Researchers uncover behavioural process anticipating the results of rapid eye movements
— 10 Jan 2011 19:10 | HealthA team of researchers has demonstrated that the brain predicts consequences of our eye movements on what we see next. The findings, which appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience,…
Acupuncture may help some older children with lazy eye
— 14 Dec 2010 20:24 | HealthAcupuncture could potentially become an alternative to patching for treating amblyopia (lazy eye) in some older children, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of…
Seeing the world differently
— 6 Dec 2010 17:33 | HealthWellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain…
UCSB scientists report study of 'brain maps' for how humans reach
— 3 Dec 2010 18:41 | HealthA ballet dancer grasps her partner's hand to connect for a pas de deux. Later that night, in the dark, she reaches for her calf to massage a sore spot. Her brain is using different…
How video games stretch the limits of our visual attention
— 18 Nov 2010 10:24 | HealthThey 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…
U of M researchers find learning in the visual brain
— 11 Nov 2010 11:17 | HealthA team of researchers from the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts and College of Science and Engineering have found that an early part of the brain's visual system rewires…
Zebrafish yield clues to how we process visual information
— 2 Nov 2010 14:46 | BiologyTo a hungry fish on the prowl, the split-second neural processing required to see, track, and gobble up a darting flash of prey is a matter of survival…