The dual functions of sight perception and action demonstrated for first time
...ering from ataxia are able to verbally identify an object presented to them but have difficulty in grasping it, while those who have agnosia can grasp an object if handed to them but are unable to name or indicate the position, size or texture of the object. T...There's more than meets the eye in judging the size of an object
...oked at the perceived difference in the size of an object at different distances. For their experiment they...allway. In this kind of illusion, the more distant object appears to occupy a larger portion of the visual field. Using fMRI, the researchers examined how th...Explaining how the brain recognizes faces
...RI, showing that face classification, similarly to object classification, can be achieved by a simple-to-complex architecture based on hierarchical shape detectors. "Jiang et al.'s modeling and behavioral findings have strong implications for understanding how faces and objects are processed in the human br......p scientists better understand the neural bases of object recognition deficits in mental disorders, such as autism, dyslexia or schizophrenia. People with autism, for example, experience difficulty with recognizing faces, which might be caused by a defect on the neural level. Breakthroughs in this kind of r...No evidence that referral management centres can deliver
...adds Professor James Owen Drife. "Those who should object are the patients, who will not receive high quality care if they are assessed as units of disease rather than treated as people, he concludes."...Infants can organise visual information at just four months
... visual stimuli is important in the development of object recognition, and is also needed for the developmen...r to understand how higher-level processes such as object recognition which requires grouping by several different visual characteristics develop. But the r...World-leading microscope shows more detail than ever
...icroscopes can produce 3-d internal pictures of an object by taking a large number of 2-d images from different angles this is known as X-ray microtomography. However, the new microscope's combining of this technique with time delay integration is completely unique. Through averaging out imperfections in t...Eyeballs vs footballs: The final
...ual system in anticipating the arrival point of an object subjected to an additional accelerative influence.The depth of experience of our participants does not seem to be able to compensate for these shortcomings in visual perception."...New data show OAB therapy Enablex® does not impair memory function compared to alternative
...delayed recall of first-last name associations and object locations. "As the population grows older, the need for safe and effective overactive bladder treatments continues to increase," said Senior Medical Director Anthony DelConte, M.D., Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. "We are pleased this study pro...Kids who blow bubbles find language is child's play
... to get their attention, and 'pretending' that one object is another, such as using a block for a car, or a box for a doll's bed, or giving a doll a tea party. Children who were good at this were also better at language, but there was no relationship with more general thinking skills, such as doing puzzle...One drink can make you blind drunk
...ed in their ability to notice an unexpected visual object when they were focused on another simple task. The phenomenon, known as 'Inattentional blindness' where unexpected, yet salient objects appear in the visual fields but fail to be detected while subjects are focused on another task has been demonstr...Inner-Sydney study to investigate causes of hayfever and seasonal allergies
..., Woolcock Institute of MedicalResearch said, "The object of this study is to determine the contribution of pollen and other airborne plant particulates to inner-Sydney resident's allergyand hayfever symptoms." Mr Sercombe said, "Using the Woolcock's recently developed "Halogen immunoassay" technique the ...Radio wand may help detect sponges left in surgery patients
...urnals. One large study estimated that a foreign object is left in patients after one of 10,000 surgical procedures involving open cavities, with two-thirds of the objects being surgical sponges, according to background information in the article. In some cases, these sponges may cause no symptoms and ca...Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders
..., Ind. -- Mice that couldn't be dissuaded from the object of their attention by a piece of sweet, crunchy ce...rocess called set shifting in which a focus on one object must be abandoned in favor of another object or task. This test long has been used to monitor brain ...Study provides evidence that autism affects functioning of entire brain
...a number traced on a finger tip, or identifying an object placed in one's hand without looking at it. Dr. Minshew said that as people with autism grow older, they may have less sensory difficulty than they did as children. Still, adults with autism fare much worse on tests of complex language and reasoni...New device may improve vision and mobility for people with tunnel vision
... becomes aware of a possible obstacle or important object in the superimposed outline image, he can move his head and eyes to look directly at the object through the display. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate how effective the device wo...Bypass surgery tops angioplasty for sickest heart patients
...g angioplasty with a stent not only have a foreign object in their body, but they also must take drugs to keep clots from forming in the stent." In other study results, the researchers found that both bypass surgery and angioplasty provided more benefit for patients than medicines alone. For patients with ...Study by Children's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon explains crucial deficit in children with autism
...n the same category and with the same parts as the object chosen by the researcher, and whether they demonstrated the appropriate type of motion. The authors found that the children with autism performed at the same level as children half their age (18 to 22 months). Children with autism could understand...Measuring brain activity for emotional markers that may indicate risk for developing alcoholism
... positive moods we feel when we obtain a desirable object or goal. Conversely, right frontal activity may be involved in inhibiting behavior in the face of negative consequences and the anxiety we feel in those circumstances." This imbalance, she speculated, may be genetically based at least partially. ......ed for numerous applications in which access to an object or data is to be restricted to a limited number of persons," the researchers state. "The development of a molecular-scale keypad lock is a particularly attractive goal as it represents a new approach to protecting information at the molecular scale."...