The ability to recognize familiar faces is fundamental to social interaction. This process provides visual information and activates social and personal knowledge about a person who is familiar. But how the brain processes ...
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Midlife women are known to have the highest prevalence of depression compared with all other age groups, and women have higher depression rates than men. A new study suggests that midlife vision impairment is associated with ...
Oct 27, 2021
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Playing video games that are heavy on action can make you better at some new tasks. New research reveals that these games are helping by teaching players to be quicker learners.
Oct 26, 2021
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that evidence for weighing the balance of benefits and harms of screening adults aged 40 years or older for primary open-angle glaucoma is currently inadequate. These ...
Oct 26, 2021
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Requiring a discerning eye, mathematical precision, and keen sense of aesthetics, map making is a unique application of both art and science. Though the scale may differ, neuroscientists who study vision are like cartographers ...
Oct 26, 2021
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A new brain implant based on intracortical microelectrodes can allow a blind person to see shapes and letters. New research by the Miguel Hernández Univresity (UMH) of Spain shows that the implantation of this micro device ...
Oct 21, 2021
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It is generally believed that children's visual perception basically reaches adults' level at the age of 6–7. But a new study shows that the development of children's visual perception does not stop before the age of 10.
Oct 18, 2021
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Athletes still have the edge over action video gamers when it comes to dynamic visual skills, a new study from the University of Waterloo shows.
Oct 7, 2021
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Scientists have measured brain activity in young people with and without depression, and found that the brains of depressed adolescents give a muted reaction to distressing images. Previous research with depressed adults ...
Oct 4, 2021
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In geographic atrophy, a late form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reading ability is closely related to the altered retinal structure. This has been demonstrated by researchers from the Department of Ophthalmology ...
Sep 30, 2021
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