News tagged with conscious perception
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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Expectations speed up conscious perception
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain works incredibly fast. However, visual impressions are so complex that their processing takes several hundred milliseconds before they enter our consciousness.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Paralyzed Belgian patient can't talk after all
(AP) -- It was heralded as a medical miracle. After spending more than two decades in a vegetative state, Rom Houben, a Belgian man in his mid-40s, was suddenly able to communicate, news reports trumpeted last November.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Now you see it, now you know you see it
There is a tiny period of time between the registration of a visual stimulus by the unconscious mind and our conscious recognition of it ― between the time we see an apple and the time we recognize it as an apple. Our ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Can we 'learn to see?': Study shows perception of invisible stimuli improves with training
Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness. A new study in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Where does consciousness come from?
Consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. Yet basic questions about the precise timing, location and dynamics of the neural event(s) allowing conscious access to information are not clearly and unequivocally ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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