News tagged with visual representations
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
Feb 28, 2013 |
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Skilled readers rely on their brain's 'visual dictionary' to recognize words
Skilled readers can recognize words at lightning fast speed when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) neuroscientists. The visual dictionary ...
Neuroscience
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Human cognition depends upon slow-firing neurons
Good mental health and clear thinking depend upon our ability to store and manipulate thoughts on a sort of "mental sketch pad." In a new study, Yale School of Medicine researchers describe the molecular basis of this ability—the ...
Neuroscience
Feb 20, 2013 |
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Barrow researchers unravel illusion
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 ...
Neuroscience
May 01, 2012 |
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