Neuroscience
New research offers clues into how the brain shapes perception to control behavior
What you see is not always what you get. And that, researchers at The Rockefeller University have discovered, is a good thing.
Jan 6, 2017
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News tagged with visual motion
Medical research
Vision test gives insight into the effect of prenatal exposure to recreational drugs
Children exposed to marijuana in the womb show a significant improvement in their ability to track moving objects at age four, according to new vision research. But researchers are warning that the results do not mean marijuana ...
Nov 19, 2015
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Neuroscience
Brain activity map reveals how infant vision develops
Visual functions, such as the perception of motion direction, start to develop soon after birth and continue to mature over time as infants gain more experience with the world. However, direct evidence of how this maturation ...
Sep 29, 2015
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Neuroscience
Circuit in the eye relies on built-in delay to see small moving objects
When we move our head, the whole visual world moves across our eyes. Yet we can still make out a bee buzzing by or a hawk flying overhead, thanks to unique cells in the eye called object motion sensors. A new study on mice ...
Aug 31, 2015
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Neuroscience
Genetic defect linked to visual impairment in dyslexics
A risk gene for dyslexia is associated with impairments in visual motion detection, according to a study published May 27 in The Journal of Neuroscience.
May 26, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why Super Mario runs from left to right
There may be a fundamental bias in the way people prefer to see moving items depicted in pictures according to research.
Mar 13, 2015
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Ophthalmology
Is #TheDress white and gold or blue and black? Rice expert on visual perception weighs in
On Feb. 26, a picture of a cocktail dress originally uploaded to the blog Tumblr swept the Internet and managed to divide the population over a simple question: What color is the dress? Some viewers saw gold and white while ...
Mar 4, 2015
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Neuroscience
What you see is where you go: Fruit fly visual interneurons may compute temporal integration of visual motion
(Medical Xpress)—The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a model organism (a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena) studied in a wide range of laboratory experiments ...
Neuroscience
Human brains 'hard-wired' to link what we see with what we do
Your brain's ability to instantly link what you see with what you do is down to a dedicated information 'highway', suggests new UCL-led research.
Mar 13, 2014
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Neuroscience
NYU's Movshon winner of 'Golden Brain' award for research on the neuroscience of vision
New York University Professor J. Anthony Movshon has been named the recipient of Minerva Foundation's 2013 Golden Brain Award "for his foundational contributions to the field of visual neuroscience," the Berkeley, Calif.-based ...
Nov 6, 2013
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