Vision

Avoiding Blurry Vision- How Nerve Cells Stabilize Visual Images

Lisa Marie Potter, Inside Science- Thank goodness for autostabilization, the digital camera feature that compensates for movement to achieve that crystal-clear, spontaneous selfie. ...

Article - Lisa Marie Potter - Jun 11 2015 - 10:00am

Can Gaming Help People With "Lazy Eye" See In 3D?

I’m on the back seat of the lower deck of a number 37 bus, outside the red-brick and Portland stone clock tower of Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton, south London.  Although I know exactly where I am, I feel lost. I no longer know whether to trust what my eyes ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Jun 11 2015 - 10:30am

Eye Disease Detected- Using A Smartphone

Researchers at the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina have developed software that detects eye diseases such as diabetic macular edema using a smartphone.  The technology was designed for general physicians who support the health system in Mexico to de ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2015 - 11:00am

Our Visual System Is A 'Sensitive Lie Detector'

The consistency of the whole appearance rather than the attractiveness of the parts is not just  saying, it's science, according to a study where participants were shown schematic point-light displays that depict a person using 15 moving dots. The re ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2015 - 5:06pm

What Color Is Your Favorite Song?

Imagine yourself as a graphic designer for New Age musician Enya, tasked with creating her next album cover. Which two or three colors from the grid below do you think would “go best” with her music? Would they be the same ones you’d pick for an album cov ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 22 2015 - 5:56pm

Glaucoma Drugs Get A Step Closer

Scientists have discovered that the high pressure in the eye that occurs with most common forms of glaucoma can trigger two genes that work together to cause vision loss, a finding that may help pave the way for new glaucoma drugs. There is currently no w ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 12 2015 - 7:30am

Faster Brain Waves Make Shorter Gaps In The Visual Stream

You know our eyelids blink but less know is that so does the human brain, dropping a few frames of visual information here and there. Those lapses of attention come fast-- maybe just once every tenth of a second. But some people may be missing more than o ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 8:47am

Music To Your Eyes

When people are listening to music, their emotional reactions to the music are reflected in changes in their pupil size. Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, Austria, are the first to show that both the emotional cont ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2015 - 5:22pm

Sign Language Has Accents Too

It isn't obvious that sign language, gestures to replace hearing words, would have regional dialects- accents- but it is so, according to Jami Fisher, a lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Linguistics, who is working on a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 1:19pm

The Causes Of Congenital Face Blindness

Scholars have found that the causes of congenital face blindness can be traced back to an early stage in the perceptual process.  ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2015 - 9:21am