Vision

Forensics- What The Eyes Can Tell Us About The Time Of Death

A future episode of CSI or your favorite crime drama may have an interesting new way to establish time of death, thanks to the work of a team of researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela.   Based on the analysis of several substances from t ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2008 - 10:26am

'Blindsight' Helps A Blind Man Flawlessly Navigate Obstacle Course

How electrical traffic is routed through the brain has always been of great interest to psychologists. It was once thought that electrical signals always followed set paths through the brain, much in the way the heart pushes blood through the cardiovascula ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Jan 17 2009 - 2:26am

New Photoreceptor Discovery- Melanopsin Helps Control Biological Clock

A team of Johns Hopkins neuroscientists has worked out how some newly discovered light sensors in the eye detect light and communicate with the brain. The report appears online this week in Nature.  These light sensors are a small number of nerve cells in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2009 - 12:58pm

How Bees Sees Can Teach Us About Computerized Facial Recognition

Imaging systems, artificial intelligence and computer programs for facial recognition could get a boost by  work from Dr. Adrian Dyer of Monash University,  one of Australia's leading bee experts- he says his latest research shows that honeybees can l ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2009 - 12:55pm

How Do Eyes Send Images To The Brain?

Scientists have known for more than 200 years that vision begins with a series of chemical reactions when light strikes the retina, but the specific chemical processes have largely been a mystery. A team of researchers from the United States and Switzerlan ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2009 - 4:39pm

Macular Degeneration- Preventing Vision Loss With Exercise

There's another reason to dust off those running shoes. Vigorous exercise may help prevent vision loss, according to a pair of studies from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The studies tracked approximately 3 ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2009 - 12:22pm

Retinitis Pigmentosa- The Link Between Cats And Humans

About one in 3,500 people are affected with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease of the retina's visual cells that eventually leads to blindness. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has identified a genetic link between cats and humans for two di ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2009 - 12:12pm

Why Is It Difficult To Recognize Faces In Photo Negatives

Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a closer look at how and why we fail.  A new study from MIT looks at ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2009 - 3:43pm

A Study Of The Mind As It Relates To Vision

In this study, I will propose, that the relationship between Mind and Vision can enable us to draw certain conclusions relevant to one aspect of what constitutes the Mind, and therefrom, we may seek a better understanding of ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Mar 24 2009 - 12:59pm

Video Games Improve Some Vision Up To 58 Percent

Video games that involve high levels of action,like first-person-shooter games, can increase real-world vision, according to research in Nature Neuroscience, including discerning slight differences in shades of gray; an attribute of the human visual system ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2009 - 1:48pm