News tagged with visual input

Congenitally absent optic chiasm: Making sense of visual pathways

(Medical Xpress)—One way to increase our understanding of bilateral brains, like our own, is to inspect their paired sensory systems. In our visual system, the optic nerves normally combine at a place called ...

Neuroscience Apr 15, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

New criteria for automated preschool vision screening

The Vision Screening Committee of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, the professional organization for pediatric eye care, has revised its guidelines for automated preschool vision screening ...

Ophthalmology Feb 04, 2013 | not rated yet | 0

Brain may 'see' more than the eyes, study indicates

(Medical Xpress)—Vision may be less important to "seeing" than is the brain's ability to process points of light into complex images, according to a new study of the fruit fly visual system currently published ...

Neuroscience Nov 01, 2012 | 4.4 / 5 (14) | 5 |

Conscious perception is a matter of global neural networks

(Medical Xpress) -- Consciousness is a selective process that allows only a part of the sensory input to reach awareness. But up to today it has yet to be clarified which areas of the brain are responsible ...

Neuroscience Jun 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0 |

Nerve cells key to making sense of our senses

The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine ...

Neuroscience Nov 20, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 2 |

Researchers show there's more than one way to read - with implications for reading disorders

(Medical Xpress) -- With specificity and precision, the brain's Visual Word Form Area, or VWFA, does exactly what its name implies. Every time we see something that looks like a word, it activates. The VWFA ...

Neuroscience Sep 15, 2011 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 10 |