News tagged with perceptual experience

People who wear rose-colored glasses see more, study shows

A University of Toronto study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses is ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 4




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Mini-sensor measures magnetic activity in human brain

A miniature atom-based magnetic sensor developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has passed an important research milestone by successfully measuring human brain activity. Experiments ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings

In 2011 -- to the consternation of women everywhere -- a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Social robotics: Beyond the uncanny valley

(PhysOrg.com) -- From science fiction and academia through assembly lines and telemedicine, robots have become both conceptually and physically ubiquitous. Technologically, robotics technology has advanced ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Chimpanzee studies suggest speech perception not a uniquely human trait

We all know that experience is a powerful teaching tool: practice remodels neural connections and leads to mastery. Now scientists suggest that it is early experience with language—and not special innate cognitive ability—that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Morgan car lovers first to benefit from High Dynamic Range TV's arrival on domestic TV

HDR video captures a wider range of light intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to lowlight images and thanks to a partnership between Researchers at WMG, University of Warwick, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How bats stay on target despite the clutter (w/ Video)

In a paper published this week in Science, researchers at Brown University and from the Republic of Georgia have learned how bats can home in on a target, while nearly instantaneously taking account of and ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing through the eyes of the colorblind

Toyohashi Tech researcher receives coveted Japanese government award for the invention of unique color filter–glasses. Allowing those with normal color vision to experience colorblindness, the glasses ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research shows that some features of human face perception are not uniquely human

When it comes to picking a face out of a police lineup, would you guess that you would use some of the same processes a pigeon might use?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reading in two colours at the same time

The Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once wrote in his autobiographical book (What do you care what other people think?): "When I see equations, I see letters in colors - I don't know why [...] And I wonder what t ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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