News tagged with perceptual stability

Discoveries shed new light on how the brain processes what the eye sees

Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Bringing 3D to the operating room

(PhysOrg.com) -- For all of their high-tech advantages, laparoscopic surgical systems are only capable of providing a two-dimensional visualization -- or in other words, no depth perception.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

3-D means headaches to many, yet companies push on

From Hollywood studios to Japanese TV makers, powerful business interests are betting 3-D will be the future of entertainment, despite a major drawback: It makes millions of people uncomfortable or sick.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 7

New study affirms handwriting problems affect children with autism into the teenage years

The handwriting problems that affect children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are likely to continue into their teenage years, according to a study from the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Md. The research is ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As in humans, sleep solidifies a bird's memories

Sleeping is known to help humans stabilize information and tasks learned during the preceding day. Now, researchers have found that sleep has similar effects upon learning in starlings, a discovery that will open up future ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

It's All Relative: UCSD's Einstein Robot Has 'Emotional Intelligence' (Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Albert Einstein may have written his last scientific theory more than half a century ago, but he's still honing his emotional intelligence in a laboratory at the University of California, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Sleep helps people learn complicated tasks

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people recover learning they otherwise thought they had forgotten over the course of a day, research at the University of Chicago shows.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Pupil Dilation Marks Decision Making

The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but the simple pupil--the circular opening at the center of the eye that contracts and dilates to regulate the amount of light the eye receives--offers a remarkable portal to the inner ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Tibetan monks yield clues to brain's regulation of attention

University of Queensland researchers have teamed up with Tibetan Buddhist monks to uncover clues to how meditation can affect perception. Olivia Carter and Professor Jack Pettigrew from UQ’s Vision, Touch and ...

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created Jun 07, 2005 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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