Vision

Visual Impairment Linked To Diminished Balance

Visually impaired individuals and people with uncorrected refractive error, those who could benefit from glasses to achieve normal vision but don't wear glasses, have a significantly greater risk of diminished balance with their eyes closed on a comp ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2013 - 10:13am

Dopamine In The Eyes: ERG Can Detect Pleasure Response From Chocolate

Dopamine, the neurotransmitter celebrity chemical du jour in brain stories, gets invoked a lot because it can make a lot of correlations possible- and that means fun for journalists who either want to highlight the ridiculous or scare you.  Like guns? Dop ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2013 - 10:56am

How We Chase Objects- It's Also In The Mind

A new paper published in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review and based on a small experiment found that people who are blindfolded employ the same strategy to intercept a running ball carrier as people who can see, which suggests that multiple areas of the br ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2013 - 3:08pm

You Can Donate Your Eyes To Research Too

Far more people are willing to donate their eyes to research than actually are registered to donate, according to a paper in Current Eye Research. While demand for tissue remains high, the number of human eyes donated for research declined 28 percent betw ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2013 - 12:22pm

Do We Only See What We Want To See? Experts Don't Notice A Gorilla In Their Midst...

The visual cortex is a fantastical portion of the brain, and one which is enlarged in our species to the extent that we can use our eyes to make sense of the world around us in amazing detail. We notice colours, shapes, motion, direction, and even three d ...

Article - Sarah Harrison - Jul 22 2013 - 2:16pm

One Color Night Light Is Best For Sleep- But The Color Will Surprise You

If you have to have light at night, a new study suggests that the color can make a big difference in how (un)healthy it is- and the answer is counter-intuitive. Though the color blue is believed to have a calming effect, a study involving hamsters found t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2013 - 6:03pm

Beat Blindness With Some Vegetable Oil?

Researchers writing in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology suggest that incubating retinal cells with vegetable oils induces biochemical and biophysical changes in the cell membrane, which may have a beneficial effect in preventing or slow ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2013 - 11:26am

Language Is A Top-Down Signal For Perception

A new paper says that words can play a powerful role in what we perceive.What we see is a function not only of incoming visual information, but also how that information is interpreted in light of other visual experiences, and may even be influenced by la ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2013 - 4:09pm

Playing Video Games Can Boost Cognition And Reaction Time

Video games have beem widely available to the home market for 40 years, which means there have been 40 years of concern about what impact, negative or positive, they may have. Soon after the first video games such as Pong and Space Invaders hit the market ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2013 - 9:12pm

Do You Have The Right Stuff? Astronaut Testing Gets A Boost

During a space shuttle mission on October 30th, 2007, astronauts set out to install two solar panels on the truss of the International Space Station (ISS). The first panel deployed successfully but they noticed a two-foot-wide tear in the second panel.  To ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2013 - 10:03am