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Visual Feedback Learning Essential For Imitating Facial Expressions

Our ability to imitate facial expressions depends on learning and visual feedback, say psychologists. Marketing people knew that already. The 'chameleon effect' is commonly used in interpersonal negotiations because imitating another person' ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2012 - 5:00am

The Ravenous Color-Blind: New Developments For Color-Deficients

Last year, as our O2Amp technology got into the hands of more and more users (mainly interested in their various medical applications), we began hearing back from many color-blind folk. One of our three technologies, they told us, gave them the surprising ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Jan 29 2013 - 3:10pm

24 New Genes For Short-Sightedness Identified

Researchers have discovered 24 new genes that cause refractive errors and myopia, commonly known as short-sightedness.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2013 - 6:51pm

VOR Eye Focus: Primitive Reflex Pretty Sophisticated

Like the term 'junk DNA', the idea of 'primitive' reflexes is contextually confusing to some people outside biology. In reality, after millions of years of evolution, even a primitive reflex is sophisticated.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2013 - 10:37am

Teh Lettres Are Jmbuled Up- Can Yuo Still Raed Tihs?

How does the human brain 'decodes' letters on a page to read a word? Psychologists are trying to help neuroscientists unravel the subtle thinking mechanisms involved in reading, which could provide solutions for helping people who find it diffic ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2013 - 4:30am

Biochemical Balloting: 'Seeing' The Flavor Of Food

Are the eyes more accurate than the nose and tongue in determining the taste of food?  Some people can actually see the flavor of foods, and the eyes have such a powerful role that they can even trump the tongue and the nose. The popular Sauvignon Blanc w ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2013 - 10:20am

How Your Brain Finds A Needle In A Haystack

How do we often find something tiny in a large area?  When our brains begin a targeted search, various visual and non-visual regions of the brain mobilize to track down that person, animal or thing. That means that if we're looking for a youngster lo ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2013 - 10:29am

Googly Eyes: Those Of Rats Go In Opposite Directions In Both The Horizontal And Vertical Plane

Rats move their eyes in opposite directions in both the horizontal and the vertical plane when running around. Each eye moves in a different direction, depending on the change in the animal’s head position,  according to a behavioral tracking study that us ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2013 - 1:11pm

Scanning Patterns Find Women Have Better Facial Memory Recall Than Men

A new paper suggests women can remember faces better than men, in part because they spend more time studying features- without even knowing it. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2013 - 1:01pm

Eylea For Age-Related Macular Degeneration- Benefit Over Existing Therapy Unclear

The drug aflibercept, under the trade name Eylea, has been approved in Germany since November 2012 for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).  In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicin ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2013 - 12:02pm