News tagged with visual science

Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory

Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Read my lips: Using multiple senses in speech perception (Video)

When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that the brain treats ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis?

As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 18