News tagged with perceptual mechanism
Doing what the brain does -- how computers learn to listen
(PhysOrg.com) -- We see, hear and feel, and make sense of countless diverse, quickly changing stimuli in our environment seemingly without effort. However, doing what our brains do with ease is often an impossible task for ...
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Researchers identify parallel mechanism monkeys and humans use to recognize faces
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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New U of M video game teaches consequences of distracted driving
Being in a life-threatening vehicle crash due to distracted driving teaches a painful lesson, but makers of the new video game Distraction Dodger hope there is a much safer way to teach the same lesson.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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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 ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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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?
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Study examines how brain corrects perceptual errors
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research provides the first evidence that sensory recalibration — the brain's automatic correcting of errors in our sensory or perceptual systems — can occur instantly.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 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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A-ha! The neural mechanisms of insight
Although it is quite common for a brief, unique experience to become part of our long-term memory, the underlying brain mechanisms associated with this type of learning are not well understood. Now, a new brain-imaging study ...
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Mar 09, 2011 |
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Perceptual changes - a key to our consciousness
(PhysOrg.com) -- With his coat billowing behind him and his right eye tightly closed, Captain Blackbeard watches the endless sea with his telescope. Suddenly the sea disappears as the pirate opens his right ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Coaching with compassion can 'light up' human thoughts (w/ Video)
Coaching happens just about everywhere, and every day, with learning as the goal. Effective coaching can lead to smoothly functioning organizations, better productivity and potentially more profit. In classrooms, ...
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Nov 16, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists reveal how the brain learns to recognize objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human ...
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Sep 22, 2010 |
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Alzheimer's drug boosts perceptual learning in healthy adults
Research on a drug commonly prescribed to Alzheimer's disease patients is helping neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, better understand perceptual learning in healthy adults.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 16, 2010 |
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