News tagged with objectivity


Researchers analyse hunting behaviour of fish larvae in virtual reality

Moving objects attract greater attention – a fact exploited by video screens in public spaces and animated advertising banners on the Internet. For most animal species, moving objects also play a major ...

Neuroscience created May 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Step by step: Feature detection and combination in perceptual learning and object identification

(Medical Xpress)—The ease and immediacy with which we recognize familiar objects escapes our notice. However, a novel, ambiguous, or highly complex object requires practice to achieve such perceptual facility. ...

Neuroscience created Jan 11, 2013 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Categories rule: High-order brain centers pave the way for visual recognition

(Medical Xpress) -- The real world is, in a word, cluttered – but thanks to evolution, we (and other mammals) have no trouble detecting objects in visually complex natural environments. Determining precisely ...

Neuroscience created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Monkeys feel, move virtual objects using only their brains (w/ video)

(Medical Xpress) -- In a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two monkeys trained at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ ...

Neuroscience created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Sex matters: Why guys recognize cars and women recognize birds best

(Medical Xpress)—Women are better than men at recognizing living things and men are better than women at recognizing vehicles.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Babies are born with 'intuitive physics' knowledge, researcher says

While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of "intuitive physics."

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Warning! Collision imminent! The brain's quick interceptions help you navigate the world

Researchers at The Neuro and the University of Maryland have figured out the mathematical calculations that specific neurons employ in order to inform us of our distance from an object and the 3-D velocities of moving objects ...

Neuroscience created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Seeing isn't believing

Pay attention! It's a universal warning, which implies that keeping close watch helps us perceive the world more accurately. But a new study by Yale University cognitive psychologists Brandon Liverence and Brian Scholl finds ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Brain stores objects by color, too

(Medical Xpress) -- How do we know what a lemon is, or a baseball? “Theories that explain how our brains store knowledge say that similar knowledge is stored in similar places. So things that are related – in how ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people

Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women's sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that b ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

All things big and small: The brain's discerning taste for size

The human brain can recognize thousands of different objects, but neuroscientists have long grappled with how the brain organizes object representation; in other words, how the brain perceives and identifies different objects. ...

Neuroscience created Jun 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Children find human-made objects more likely to be owned than natural objects

Children as young as 3 are likely to say that things made by humans have owners, but that natural objects, such as pine cones and sea shells, are not owned, according to a new study published by the American Psychological ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Neuroscientists uncover neural mechanisms of object recognition

Certain brain injuries can cause people to lose the ability to visually recognize objects — for example, confusing a harmonica for a cash register.

Neuroscience created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Decoding touch

With their whiskers rats can detect the texture of objects in the same way as humans do using their fingertips. A study, in which some scientists of SISSA have taken part, shows that it is possible to understand ...

Neuroscience created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Child's counting comprehension may depend on objects counted, study shows

such as toys, tiles and blocks—that students can touch and move around, called manipulatives, have been used to teach basic math skills since the 1980s. Use of manipulatives is based on the long-held belief that young children's ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast