Many pedestrians use their smartphones while they walk along. Instead of paying attention to traffic, their eyes are glued to the display, which poses a huge risk potential. When making a call, listening to music, typing, ...
Mar 1, 2018
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A new University study, published in PLOS One, highlights the high incidence and prevalence of visual problems in acute stroke survivors.
Mar 8, 2019
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Common wisdom has it that if the visual cortex in the brain is deprived of visual information in early infanthood, it may never develop properly its functional specialization, making sight restoration later in life almost ...
Nov 7, 2012
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Measurements for three at-home self-administered visual acuity (VA) tests were within one line of Snellen acuity compared within-office VA measurements, according to a study published online March 31 in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Apr 1, 2022
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Testing of study participants who wore head-mounted display systems (Google glass) found that the glasses created a partial peripheral vision obstruction, according to a study in the November 5 issue of JAMA.
Nov 4, 2014
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In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain's visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear's lab has followed the science wherever it has led, yielding the discovery of cellular mechanisms serving ...
Dec 13, 2019
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(Medical Xpress) -- Here are some words that few would have thought to put together: video game therapy. Yet, a pilot study by vision researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has found that playing video games ...
Sep 1, 2011
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The maturation of visual acuity in both amblyopia and myopia may be closely associated with the development of pathways signaling bright features in the brain, according to research published in the Journal of Neuroscience ...
Jun 17, 2019
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Patients in the United States who have the cornea-damaging disease keratoconus may soon be able to benefit from a new treatment that is already proving effective in Europe and other parts of the world. The treatment, called ...
Oct 24, 2011
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Contrast is a sensory property that makes stimuli stand out. Writers, designers, and musicians all use contrast to emphasize striking differences in text, visual displays and melodies. In vision, luminance contrast describes ...
Feb 2, 2021
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