News tagged with visual computing


Computer game could improve sight of visually impaired children

(Medical Xpress)—Visually impaired children could benefit from a revolutionary new computer game being developed by a team of neuroscientists and game designers.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Babies show visual consciousness at five months

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by scientists in France and Denmark has identified a neurological marker in the brain of babies as young as five months that is associated with visual consciousness, or the ...

Neuroscience created Apr 19, 2013 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Could scientists peek into your dreams? (w/ video)

(HealthDay)—Talk about mind reading. Researchers have discovered a potential way to decode your dreams, predicting the content of the visual imagery you've experienced on the basis of neural activity recorded ...

Neuroscience created Apr 04, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Engineer invents bionic eye to help the blind

(Medical Xpress)—For UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the FDA approved what it called "the first bionic eye for the blind." ...

Ophthalmology created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sizing things up: The evolutionary neurobiology of scale invariance

(Medical Xpress)—Visual perception is far more complex and powerful than our experience suggests. Moreover, in attempting to both understand vision and implement it in a computational device, the fact that ...

Neuroscience created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers find causality in the eye of the beholder

We rely on our visual system more heavily than previously thought in determining the causality of events. A team of researchers has shown that, in making judgments about causality, we don't always need to use cognitive reasoning. ...

Neuroscience created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Virtual learning iPad app to help train future neurosurgeons

A new mobile 'app', downloadable free of charge, will assist with the training of future neurosurgeons, and is just one of a stream of programmes being developed, adapting visual computing and three dimensional ...

Surgery created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Paper examines the illusion of the scintillating grid

(Medical Xpress)—The fascinating but deeply weird illusion of the scintillating grid, where the grid appears to sparkle, has been shown to be more sparkly when you view it with both eyes rather than one ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Perfect pitch: Knowing the note may be in your genes

People with perfect pitch seem to possess their own inner pitch pipe, allowing them to sing a specific note without first hearing a reference tone. This skill has long been associated with early and extensive musical training, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study demonstrates how fear can skew spatial perception

That snake heading towards you may be further away than it appears. Fear can skew our perception of approaching objects, causing us to underestimate the distance of a threatening one, finds a study published in Current Bi ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise may lead to better school performance for kids with ADHD

A few minutes of exercise can help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder perform better academically, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University researcher.

Attention deficit disorders created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study aims to train sufferers' auditory systems to 'ignore tinnitus'

An innovative multi-modal treatment programme for tinnitus will be trialled by researchers from the Centre for Brain Research at The University of Auckland, in a study made possible by a donation from Link Research and Grants.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Studying everyday eye movements could aid in diagnosis of neurological disorders

Researchers at the University of Southern California have devised a method for detecting certain neurological disorders through the study of eye movements.

Neuroscience created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Strobe eyewear training improves visual memory

Stroboscopic training, performing a physical activity while using eyewear that simulates a strobe-like experience, has been found to increase visual short-term memory retention, and the effects last for 24 ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows why some types of multitasking are more dangerous than others

In a new study that has implications for distracted drivers, researchers found that people are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast