News tagged with brains visual
The living fossils of brain evolution
(Phys.org) -- In the course of its evolution, the architecture of the mouse brain may have barely changed. Similar to the tiny ancestors of modern mammals that lived about 80 million years ago, nerve cells ...
May 23, 2012 |
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Visualization provides decision-makers with the big picture
The human brain is not very well-equipped for analysing multidimensional data. In his doctoral dissertation, Mikko Berg, M.Sc. (Tech.) examined how graphical visualizations can help people to understand complex data. One ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 11, 2012 |
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CSIC inquiry tests visual intelligence through Facebook
A team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a web application to test the visual intelligence of Facebook users through the social network. The new platform will enable researchers ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Flies' flight patterns rely on sense of smell
(PhysOrg.com) -- If a fruit fly gets a whiff of a rotting banana, it does everything it can to get to the location of the potential feast. That includes not only beating its wings faster, but overriding its ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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New research explains autistic's exceptional visual abilities
Researchers directed by Dr. Laurent Mottron at the University of Montreal's Centre for Excellence in Pervasive Development Disorders (CETEDUM) have determined that people with autism concentrate more brain ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 04, 2011 |
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The brain against words in the mirror
Most people can read texts reflected in a mirror slowly and with some effort, but a team of scientists from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) has shown for the first time that we can ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2011 |
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NeuroImage: Multiplexing in the visual brain
Imagine sitting in a train at the railway station looking outside: Without analyzing the relative motion of object contours across many different locations at the same time, it is often difficult to decide ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears
Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Learning to see consciously
Our brains process many more stimuli than we become aware of. Often images enter our brain without being noticed: visual information is being processed, but does not reach consciousness, that is, we do not ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Parts of brain can switch functions: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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The blind also have a Stripe of Gennari
Nerve bundles in the visual cortex of the brain in blind people may process the sense of touch.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Brain doesn't need vision at all in order to 'read' material
The portion of the brain responsible for visual reading doesn't require vision at all, according to a new study by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and France.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 22, 2011 |
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The brain as a 'task machine'
The portion of the brain responsible for visual reading doesn't require vision at all, according to a new study published online on February 17 in Current Biology. Brain imaging studies of blind people as they read words ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Scientists boost perception using rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation
Researchers at the University of Glasgow and University College London (UCL) have, for the first time, enhanced visual perception through rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the brain.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 14, 2011 |
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New mathematical model of brain information processing predicts some of vision peculiarities
The human retina -- the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals -- has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount of data. High-level ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 28, 2011 |
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