Vision

Science can make you a better dancer- or at least improve your chances of not looking stupid to the opposite sex, say a group of evolutionary psychologists who used 3D motion-capture technology to create uniform avatar figures and identified the key movem ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2014 - 1:31pm

Best Illusion. Ever.

Here’s my vote for the best illusion ever. It was created by B. Pinna, G.J. Brelstaff / Vision Research 40 (2000) 2091–2096. Loom your head toward, and away, from the center point. Print it out and bring to a bar, and it is even more impressive-- the paper ...

Blog Post - Mark Changizi - Sep 15 2010 - 9:58pm

The Visual Nerd In You Understands Curved Space

You’ve heard that space is curved – that’s gravity. You’ve also been told that you cannot really understand curved space. Sure, you can come to know curvy mathematics by studying general relativity or differential geometry, but you cannot grasp curved spac ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Sep 30 2010 - 9:25am

Blue Football Fields: Upping The Ante

Boise State University's football team is smoking, and some have wondered whether their blue football field may help explain their success...so much so that, a couple months back, Oregon State painted their practice field blue to help them prepare for ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Nov 2 2010 - 11:58am

Implanted chip allows blind people to 'see'

A man with an inherited form of blindness, retinitis pigmentosa, has been able to identify a coffee mug and various shades of gray using a retina implant, according to work published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The Retina Implant AG is a sub-re ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 3 2010 - 6:27pm

Vision, Perception And The Brain

The eye is not just a lens that takes pictures and converts them into electrical signals, it is the first part of an elaborate system that leads to "seeing". As with all vertebrates, nerve cells in the human eye separate an image into differen ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2010 - 10:56am

Field Of View: Why The Same Face May Look Male Or Female

Neuroscientists have discovered that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area of a person's field of view, but female when they appear in a different location, a finding which challenges the longstanding tenet of neuroscience tha ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2010 - 6:03pm

3-D Movies Are Missing The Point...Of View

Many of the films we love manage to put us in someone else’s shoes, whether it be the shoes of a social network tycoon or a zombie killer. After all, we don’t pay $15 to see on screen what we do all day. Writers and directors get us into the protagonist’s ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Dec 8 2010 - 2:49pm

Facial Recogniton Peaks In Our 30s

Scientists writing in Cognition have said that our ability to recognize and remember faces peaks at ages 30 to 34- a decade later than most of our other mental abilities. Some prior studies had suggested that face recognition might be slow to mature but fe ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2010 - 12:23pm

Liberal Versus Conservative Biology: Your Eyes Can Reveal Your Politics?

Wrestlers are taught to ignore an opponent's eyes and instead watch his waist- nothing much is happening that his waist won't be involved in whereas eyes can be misleading. That means wrestlers are conservatives, according to new research comi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 29 2010 - 11:26am