News tagged with visual sensitivity
Seeing how evolutionary mechanisms yield biological diversity
An international team of scientists has discovered how changes in both gene expression and gene sequence led to the diversity of visual systems in African cichlid fish.
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Brandeis studies evaluate visionary approach to improving eyesight
Joseph Balboni loves sports. An avid tennis player and golfer, as well as baseball fan, the 46-year-old insurance agent became increasingly frustrated over time as his eyesight dimmed due to keratoconus, a degenerative eye ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Action video games improve vision
Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research in today's Nature Neuroscience.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Reward elicits unconscious learning in humans
A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 12th issue of the journal Neuron, demonstrates that stimul ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 18, 2009 |
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