Psychology & Psychiatry
Focus on outliers creates flawed snap judgments
You enter a room and quickly scan the crowd to gain a sense of who's there—how many men versus women. How reliable is your estimate?
May 11, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New study explains why you should look at your food before casting judgment
The order in which your senses interact with food has a tremendous impact on how much you like it. That's the premise of a new study led by the University of South Florida (USF). The findings published in the Journal of Consumer ...
Apr 14, 2021
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Neuroscience
Depression affects visual perception
Researchers specializing in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Helsinki investigated the effects of depression on visual perception. The study confirmed that the processing of visual information is altered in ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Do I know you? Researchers evaluate how masks disrupt facial perception
The identification of people wearing masks has often presented a unique challenge during the pandemic. A new study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and York University in Canada reveals ...
Dec 21, 2020
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Neuroscience
Brain clears the way for binocular vision even before eyes are open
To prepare the brain for binocular vision and depth perception, first you have to take out some of the chandeliers.
Dec 7, 2020
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Neuroscience
Neural pathway crucial to successful rapid object recognition in primates
MIT researchers have identified a brain pathway critical in enabling primates to effortlessly identify objects in their field of vision. The findings enrich existing models of the neural circuitry involved in visual perception ...
Oct 21, 2020
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Neuroscience
Learning a foreign language is harder for visually impaired people
A scientist from RUDN University analyzed the effect of visual impairment on a person's perception of unfamiliar sounds when learning a foreign language. The experiment showed that lack of access to visual cues makes learning ...
Oct 6, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Screen time can change visual perception—and that's not necessarily bad
The coronavirus pandemic has shifted many of our interactions online, with Zoom video calls replacing in-person classes, work meetings, conferences and other events. Will all that screen time damage our vision?
Sep 30, 2020
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Neuroscience
Detecting changes in visual stimuli depends on increases in cortical spiking
How do our brains translate the signals of millions of neurons into meaningful perceptions of our environment and help guide our behavior? Attempting to answer this question is no small task, but understanding the connection ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Ophthalmology
Opening eyes to a frontier in vision restoration
A revolutionary cortical vision device, developed by Monash University researchers that could one day help restore vision to the blind, is being prepared for world-first human clinical trials in Melbourne.
Sep 16, 2020
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