News tagged with visual periphery

Older Drivers Recognize Their Shortcomings, Except One

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many drivers over age 70 realize that their reaction time is slower so they naturally compensate by driving more carefully, says Matthew Romoser, who studies age-related physical and cognitive ...

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Data support theory on location of lost Leonardo da Vinci painting

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio late last year appears to support the theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting existed on the east wall of the ...

Other Sciences / Other

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Molecular motor struts like drunken sailor

Monty Python may claim credit for immortalizing the “silly walk,” but molecular biology beat the comedy troupe to the punch. It turns out that a tiny motor inside of us called dynein, one tasked with shuttling vital ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Shifting suburban hierarchy

If there’s strength in numbers, Chicago’s outer-ring towns gained big-time muscle from 2000 to 2010, according to a new analysis of census data by Northern Illinois University Geography Professor ...

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created May 25, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biologists capture cell's elusive 'motor' on videotape, solving the mystery of its deployment

(PhysOrg.com) -- In basic research with far-reaching impact, cell biologists Wei-Lih Lee and Steven Markus report in an article released today in Developmental Cell, with videos, that they have solved one of the fundamental questi ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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There's more to implants than meets the eye

In this month's Physics World, Richard Taylor, professor of physics, psychology and art at the University of Oregon, warns that artificial retinal implants – a technology fast becoming a reality – must adapt to the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New microscope decodes complex eye circuitry (w/ Video)

The sensory cells in the retina of the mammalian eye convert light stimuli into electrical signals and transmit them via downstream interneurons to the retinal ganglion cells which, in turn, forward them to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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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

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Unlocking the secret(ase) of building neural circuits

Mutant presenilin is infamous for its role in the most aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease -- early-onset familial Alzheimer's -- which can strike people as early as their 30s. In their latest study, researchers ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Research reveals deaf adults see better than hearing people

Adults born deaf react more quickly to objects at the edge of their visual field than hearing people, according to groundbreaking new research by the University of Sheffield.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Breaking ball too good to be true (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Curveballs curve and fastballs go really fast, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball "break" or a fastball "rise."

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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