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One of the things that everyone learns from childhood is that all sense contribute to our overall perception of the environment. The question that has been bugging researchers is how this is happening in the brain. A new study proposes a series of explanations for these phenomena.
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5 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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A team at the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Florida, carried out the very first experiment with blindfolded dolphins, to see how they imitate others.
Dolphins are very intelligent creatures and ever since people started working with them, they have never ceased to amaze us with their tricks.
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22 January 2011
06:38 GMT |
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People with a disability to one of the five senses, tend to compensate by sharpening the others, and a new University of Sheffield research reveals that deaf adults see better than hearing people.To be more precise, adults who were born deaf, react more quickly to objects at the edge of their visual field than hearin... |
11 November 2010
10:07 GMT |
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A team of experts from MIT has provided conclusive evidence that indeed the brains of younger people can be more easily rewired that fully-developed, adult cortices. The evidence should finally settle a long-standing debate on the issue. When researchers first demonstrated that areas of the brain involved in a partic... |
22 October 2010
06:06 GMT |
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Scientists say that people who are deaf may experience an improvement in their sight, as the brain rewires itself to compensate for the lost sensation. According to a new study conducted on unsuspecting cats, it may be that the auditory cortex, the portion of the brain responsible for creating the sensation of hearin... |
11 October 2010
04:43 GMT |
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In a finding that could literally change the way kids look at parents and vice-versa, researchers have discovered that children's brains indeed appear to perceive and process things differently. The new data helps explain why children and their parents usually don't see eye to eye. According to the team beh... |
14 September 2010
10:51 GMT |
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Researchers announce the development of a new type of artificial cornea, which may help countless patients recover full or partial eyesight. The innovation could also help repair and regenerate eye tissue that has been damaged by various means, say experts from Canada and Sweden, who conducted the investigation.Thus ... |
26 August 2010
06:03 GMT |
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced plans to support the development of a new type of intelligent video cameras that are to be used on robotic devices. The agency says that these instruments could be used to give robots a sense of perception, which should help them make better ... |
19 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Biologists have recently made a significant discovery, when they have found that a certain species of snakes is capable of using small tentacles on its snout to sense its prey and its surroundings. The investigators believe that the creature may be using these structures to make more sense of its environment when ins... |
3 February 2010
16:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that the human brain is in the habit of processing visual and audio information in similar manners, as in it uses the same type of “encryption” for both types of information. The new study was conducted using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)... |
13 August 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Acuity is one of the handful of free iPhone apps I've had the pleasure of testing this week. Developed by a company called Intellicore, Acuity is a powerful questionnaire-based application that can accurately tell you whether or not you have good eye sight. Ever had the impression you might have trouble distingu... |
12 May 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Designer Bruno Fosi has come up with a cool idea to make Apple's iPhone usable in the hands of the visually impaired. Yanko Design touts the idea as “brilliant,” pointing out to the benefits of functions like text to speech and moon type tactile feedback. “As wonderful as the iPhone is, it leav... |
2 December 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Researchers place the final development stage of the artificial lens that would be able to restore a perfect vision both to short- and long-sighted people 5 years from now. With age, human sight becomes less accurate, mainly due to the fact that the lens of the human eye becomes harder and less flexible. Since ... |
12 September 2008
08:58 GMT |
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Since it was launched in 1998, Viagra has been consumed by over 20 million men just as a prescription. Many others, especially young, take it for fun. This should be the last resort. And its use must be carefully controlled. The side effects of the Viagra can be very nasty. Studies show that sildenafil (the active in... |
28 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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There are many public persons, hidden gays, like actors or singers, which consider that they have managed to fool us for a lifetime. Besides the fact that this is hard to do, in fact we are able to assess sexuality in just one fraction of second, just based on some photos. This is now a scientifically proven fact, st... |
21 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Dogs have evolved from wolves. And wolves are nocturnal predators; you can see that very well by analyzing the behavior of stray dog packs. The same dogs that seem very quiet and calm during the day will attack any human passing through their "territory" at night. Indeed, at night or in a forest, eyesight does not he... |
9 November 2007
06:08 GMT |
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We live in an urban jungle, but lurking dangers differ from those found in nature. Like Stone Age hunter-gatherers, modern people are still more capable of spotting predators and prey, instead of what can really kill us in a city. A new research shows that humans are still much more skilled to observe other people an... |
5 October 2007
02:59 GMT |
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A baby may be sunshine for the parents, but sunshine for the baby is really harmful. There is a higher risk of myopia later in life. About 25 % of myopia cases seem to be caused by a too great exposure to sunlight in the first weeks of life. It was already known that over-exposure to sunlight caused myopia in animals... |
25 September 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Have you been trying for over an hour to figure out what that Picasso picture depicts?You should try it in complete silence...Because a new research reveals that what we hear can impair what we see. These findings could explain us how illusions are induced in the visual cortex, due to rapid integration of auditory an... |
12 April 2007
06:35 GMT |
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The human eye, during normal everyday vision, moves around a scene, giving the brain time to focus attention on relevant items, such as a snake curled in the path. Evolutionarily speaking, survival often depends on extracting vital information in one glance, so that we jump out of danger's way before we even re... |
3 April 2007
04:19 GMT |
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