Neuroscience
How vision captures sound now somewhat uncertain
(Medical Xpress)—When listening to someone speak, we also rely on lip-reading and gestures to help us understand what the person is saying.
Jan 16, 2014
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News tagged with visual stimuli
Neuroscience
Scientists shed light on brain computations
(Medical Xpress)—University of Queensland (UQ) scientists have made a fundamental breakthrough into how the brain decodes the visual world.
Oct 30, 2013
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Neuroscience
Neuronal activity in the visual cortex controlled by both where the eyes are looking and what they see
Even though our eyes are constantly moving, the brain perceives the external world as stationary—a feat achieved by integrating images acquired by the retina with information about the direction of the gaze. An international ...
Sep 20, 2013
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Neuroscience
Why we look at the puppet, not the ventriloquist
(Medical Xpress)—As ventriloquists have long known, your eyes can sometimes tell your brain where a sound is coming from more convincingly than your ears can.
Aug 30, 2013
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Neuroscience
Re-learning how to see: Researchers find a crucial on-off switch in visual development
A discovery by a University of Maryland-led research team offers hope for treating "lazy eye" and other serious visual problems that are usually permanent unless they are corrected in early childhood.
Aug 1, 2013
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Neuroscience
Researchers uncover cellular mechanisms for attention in the brain
The ability to pay attention to relevant information while ignoring distractions is a core brain function. Without the ability to focus and filter out "noise," we could not effectively interact with our environment. Despite ...
Jul 26, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Picking up a second language is predicted by ability to learn patterns
Some people seem to pick up a second language with relative ease, while others have a much more difficult time. Now, a new study suggests that learning to understand and read a second language may be driven, at least in part, ...
May 28, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study suggests clenching right hand may help form memories, left may help recall words
Clenching your right hand may help form a stronger memory of an event or action, and clenching your left may help you recollect the memory later, according to research published April 24 in the open access journal PLOS ONE ...
Apr 24, 2013
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Autism spectrum disorders
Atypical brain circuits may cause slower gaze shifting in infants who later develop autism
Infants at 7 months of age who go on to develop autism are slower to reorient their gaze and attention from one object to another when compared to 7-month-olds who do not develop autism, and this behavioral pattern is in ...
Mar 20, 2013
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Neuroscience
One region, two functions: Brain cells' multitasking key to understanding overall brain function
A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into categories, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago.
Mar 6, 2013
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