Vision

Visual Spatial Attention: Treating Dyslexia Before Reading Age

A new study says it has ended the  long-lasting debate on the causes of dyslexia and also opened the way to a new approach for early identification and interventions for the 10 percent of children for whom reading is extremely difficult.  For children with ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2012 - 6:30pm

What Blindsight Can Tell Us About The Architecture Of The Brain

Everyone has heard of hindsight- where the context of past events is much clearer in memory than they were at the time- but a new study of the blindsight phenomenon, where a person is c ortically blind yet they can still discriminate visual information wit ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2012 - 10:28pm

Body Dysmorphic Disorder- Overly Self-Critical But They Can Recognize Faces

People with Body Dysmorphic Disorder  (BDD) have an obsession relating to their body image, where they believe that they have a defect in their appearance. BDD is estimated to affect one to two per cent of the population. Individuals with BDD engage with t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2012 - 10:13pm

Your Next Eyeglasses Could Be Designed After A Moth's Eyes

If you wear glasses, and they have been created recently, you are reading this article by looking through a tiny, transparent layer of nanomaterial. Anti-reflective coatings based on nanomaterials that reduce the amount of reflected light are used in most ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2012 - 3:30pm

Blindsight: In Every Day Life, Your Brain Sees What Your Eyes Do Not

Even if you are not aware of everything you take in, your eyes are sending visual information to your brain.  This unconscious  seeing is evidenced in a phenomenon called "blindsight", where people have no awareness, but their brains can see- eve ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2012 - 2:30pm

Gaydar Located- It's In The Eyes

Does gaydar exist?  If so, it's in the eyes. Sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation to attractive people, say researchers who used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes of participants watching erotic videos. Pupils we ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2012 - 3:30pm

Argus II Neuroprosthetic Implant- Blind Man Gets Words Directly On His Retina

 A new device called the Argus II has been implanted in over 50 patients, many of whom can now see color, movement and objects and researchers have even streamed braille patterns directly into a blind patient's retina, allowing him to read four-letter ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2012 - 11:30am

Why Older People Sometimes Read Better Than Younger

Psychologists from the University of Leicester have carried out eye tests to examine reading styles in young and old people and say there isn't just an eyesight issue- the way we read words changes as we grow older. They digitally manipulated text, c ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 12:30pm

Illusory Valence: Body Language Doesn't Lie, But Facial Expressions Can

In wrestling, we were always taught to watch the opponent's hips- because their head and their eyes were going to try and fake you out but hips don't lie. Likewise, if you think that you can use facial expressions to determine if someone has jus ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2012 - 12:02pm

Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion- Cause Of Widespread Eye Disease Identified

Branch retinal vein occlusion – blockage of the blood vessels that channel blood from the retina – is a common eye disease. A type of blood clot in the eye, the disease causes reduced vision, and people with the disease also typically have an increased ri ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2012 - 12:23pm