News tagged with visual cognition
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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Marijuana use may hurt intellectual skills in MS patients
Any possible pain relief that marijuana has for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be outweighed by the drug's apparent negative effect on thinking skills, according to research published in the March 29, 2011, print ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 28, 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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Brain's visual circuits do error correction on the fly
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain's visual neurons continually develop predictions of what they will perceive and then correct erroneous assumptions as they take in additional external information, according to new ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 07, 2010 |
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'Less is more,' when it comes to sugary, high-caffeine energy drinks, researchers say
Moderate consumption of so-called energy drinks can improve people's response time on a lab test measuring behavioral control, but those benefits disappear as people drink more of the beverage, according to a study published ...
Dec 02, 2010 |
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How video games stretch the limits of our visual attention
They are often accused of being distracting, but recent research has found that action packed video games like Halo and Call of Duty can enhance visual attention, the ability that allows us to focus on relevant visual information. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 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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Dance Memory: Studying how the mind remembers physical movement
Human memory - taking in information, storing it and retrieving it accurately - is key to a variety of crucial decisions made in medicine or law and physical movements like dance.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Memory problems not the only predictor of later mild cognitive impairment
Mild cognitive impairment is often seen as a transition stage between the cognitive decline of normal aging and the more serious problems of Alzheimer's disease. But what leads to mild cognitive impairment?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Hand study reveals brain's distorted body model
Our brains contain a highly distorted model of our own bodies, according to new research by scientists at UCL (University College London). A study published today, which focussed on the brain's representation ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Common Alzheimer's medication helps skills necessary for safe driving
A promising study from Rhode Island Hospital demonstrated that cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEI), a type of medication often prescribed for Alzheimer's disease (AD), improved some cognitive skills in patients with mild AD ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Great apes know they could be wrong
orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas - realize that they can be wrong when making choices, according to Dr. Josep Call from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Twins Study Looks at Genetic Influences on Thinking
(PhysOrg.com) -- A groundbreaking study by UT Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity is focusing on twins in an effort to answer some long-debated questions about the rival influences of nature vs. nurture.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Length of time in institutional care may influence children's learning
The amount of time children spend in institutional care may affect how their brains develop.
Feb 05, 2010 |
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