http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Barrow Neurological Institute researchers Jorge Otero-Millan, Stephen Macknik, and Susana Martinez-Conde share the recent cover of the Journal of Neuroscience in a compelling study into why illusions trick our brains. Barrow is part of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-barrow-unravel-illusion.html Neuroscience Tue, 01 May 2012 10:52:12 EST news255086273 Golfers looking to improve their putting may find an advantage in visualizing the hole as bigger, according to a new study from Purdue University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-golfers-putt.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:08:39 EST news252677280 A new visual illusion has shed light on a long-standing mystery about how the brain works out the 3-D shapes of objects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-insights-brain-reconstructs-dimension.html Neuroscience Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:18:49 EST news242482717 (Medical Xpress) -- We experience an interesting phenomenon when the contrast of an image flickers as it moves across our visual field – namely, an illusory reversal in the direction of motion. Moreover, this reverse-phi illusion occurs in a surprisingly wide range of species, indicating that this is a common evolutionary adaptation. Recently, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus demonstrated that motion-sensitive neurons in the brain of the ubiquitous fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster respond to the reverse-phi illusion and generate a change in its flight behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-ghosts-machine-neural-basis-visual.html Neuroscience Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:00:02 EST news227895068