Vision

Even Short Term Space Flight Causes Changes In Eyes

Less than two weeks in space may be enough to cause profound changes in eye structure and gene expression, according to a new report based on a small study. The study looked at how low gravity and radiation and oxidative damage impacts mice and examines e ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2013 - 12:59pm

Eyetracking Study: Men Check Out Female Bodies- And So Do Women

Women can tell when someone's eyes aren't on her face and are instead looking at her body- because it happens all of the time. Men do it... and so do other women. At least when they are in college. The oft-rumored "objectifying gaze" i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2013 - 3:48pm

What Color Is H? Synesthesia In Childhood

What color is H? Is 4 brighter than 9? Those questions don't make sense to many people but for people with grapheme-color synesthesia, they have real answers. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2013 - 2:25pm

The Chemistry Of Cataract Creation

A breakthrough in understanding how cataracts form could be used to help prevent the world's leading cause of blindness, which currently affects nearly 20 million people worldwide.  It has long been known that human eyes have a powerful ability to fo ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2013 - 11:50pm

No, You Don't Have ESP: Or A Sixth Sense Either

A paper has determined that while people can reliably become aware of changes- visual awareness can extend beyond objects we focus on- that doesn't mean we can identify what has changed.  Their example is that a person might notice a general change i ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2014 - 11:26am

Representational Similarity Analysis: Expanding Our Field Of Vision About Vision

When we open our eyes, visual information floods the brain and it interprets what we're seeing. Researchers recently non-invasively mapped this flow of information in the human brain by combining two existing technologies, which allowed them to ident ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2014 - 9:56am

Is Your Doctor "Health Blind"?

There are those among us who are “health blind”, i.e., handicapped at sensing the health signals most of us easily recognize on others around us. They are the color blind. But we at O2Amp can fix that. 1. The Health-Blind Among Us Despite the presence of ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Jan 29 2014 - 12:15pm

EyeMusic Allows The Blind To 'See' Colors And Shapes

Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) use auditory or tactile stimulation to provide representations of visual information and can help the blind "see" colors and shapes. Users recognize the image without seeing it because the information is transf ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 2:47pm

Are Eye-Safe Lasers Safe?

The modern world has a problem. We are undergoing spontaneous mutations caused by radiation, even at low levels. This radiation can break chromosomes into pieces that reattach randomly and sometimes create genes that didn't previously exist. Actually ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 12:22am

Are There Hazards To Hemianopia Driving?

No one wants to tell someone they can't drive. America was founded on the pioneer spirit and unless we cramp everyone into urban concrete jungles, which are implicated in any number of health, pollution and crime issues, America's vast expanses ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 9:58am