Vision

How Expectations Speed Up Perception

The human brain works incredibly fast but visual impressions are so complex that their processing takes up to several hundred milliseconds before they enter our consciousness.  Researchers say they know why this delay may vary in length; i f you already kn ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2011 - 1:41pm

Some Dinosaurs Were Nocturnal

A new study of the eyes of fossil animals in Science overturns the conventional wisdom that dinosaurs were active by day while early mammals moved at night.  Instead, dinosaurs like velociraptor hunted by night while the big plant-eaters browsed around the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2011 - 3:43pm

Realistic Robots- Uncanny Valley Still Pretty Wide

In 1970, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori described what he called the " uncanny valley ", which was a graph showing our affinity for a machine to its likeness of humans.   As robots look and act more human-like, our fondness for them increases, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 7 2011 - 8:33pm

Retinas Regenerated Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are the leading causes of incurable blindness in the western world. In these diseases, retinal cells (photoreceptors) begin to die and limit the eye's ability to cap ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2011 - 1:26pm

Oculomotor System And The Brain's 'Burst Of Fire'

The authors of a new study in Nature Neuroscience studied mechanisms used by the brain to store information for a short period of time. The cells of several neural circuits store information by maintaining a persistent level of activity; a short-lived stim ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2011 - 1:53pm

Don't It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue?

(Dr.) Greg Homer (real name), a representative of  Stroma Medical, a California equipment company, claims his new "Lumineyes" treatment could be an alternative to colored contact lenses. The treatment uses a laser to remove melanin from the upper ...

Blog Post - Bobby Knight - Jul 29 2012 - 10:32am

The Impact Of Exercise On Eyes

Physical activity is always good for you but a new analysis says it may patients reduce their risk of developing glaucoma. Higher levels of physical exercise appear to have a long-term beneficial impact on low ocular perfusion pressure (OPP), an important ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2011 - 1:32pm

Nude Bodies Boost Visual Processing

Researchers are saying that the perception of nude bodies is boosted at an early stage of visual processing.  So it may be an overlap with the culturally forbidden nature of scantily clad or nude figures as the driving force behind its appeal in areas as d ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2011 - 10:41am

Cases Of Blindness Have Plummeted

Corporate media likes to shock or enrage people so when it comes to science stories, the ridiculous- life on other planets, billions 'wasted' on curing cancer, Republicans hate science- often takes precedent over the quiet wins. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2012 - 11:28am

Prosopagnosia And The Neural Basis For Facial Recognition

What is actually happening in the brain when one person looks at another?  For people with prosopagnosia, an inability to recognize faces,  information processing- the stages that our brains go through to recognize a face- is breaking down.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2012 - 1:01pm