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Body Perception Differs in Children and Adults

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Categories Brain & Behavior

How rats see things

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Categories Life & Non-humans

Nighttime OK contact lens can reshape eye, restore near vision

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Categories Health

Sound and vision work hand in hand

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Our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more than people realize, a new UCLA psychology study shows. “If we think of the perceptual system as a democracy where each sense is like a person casting a vote and all votes are count…

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Uncategorized

Perceptual training improves vision of the elderly

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Elderly adults can improve their vision with perceptual training, according to a study from the University of California, Riverside and Boston University that has implications for the health and mobility of senior citizens.
T…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Potential drug therapy for diabetic retinopathy under study

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One drug’s startling ability to restore retinal health in the eyes of diabetic mice has researchers wanting to learn more about how it works and whether it might do the same for people.
“We want to know if this drug has the potential to block …

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Multifocal contact lenses may reduce vision for night driving

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A new study suggests that older adults who wear multifocal contact lenses to correct problems with near vision, a very common condition that increases with age, may have greater difficulty driving at night than their counterparts who wear glasses. A…

Categories Blog Entry, Health

The zebrafish’s neural circuit prevents it from biting off more than it can chew

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Between alerting us to danger and allowing us to spot prey, vision keeps many animals, including humans, alive. But exactly how does this important sense work, and why is it easier for us to spot movement of small objects in our field of vision,…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans, Technology

Cataract surgery saves lives, dollars by reducing auto crashes

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CHICAGO — Cataract surgery not only improves vision and quality of life for older people, but is also apparently a way to reduce the number of car crashes. The research will be presented today’s at the Scientific Program of the 2010 American Academ…

Categories Blog Entry, Health

Research discovers how the deaf have super vision

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Deaf or blind people often report enhanced abilities in their remaining senses, but up until now, no one has explained how and why that could be. Researchers at The University of Western Ontario, led by Stephen Lomber of The Centre for Brain an…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health, Life & Non-humans

Progress against child deaths will lag until family, community care prioritized

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Global efforts to tackle millions of preventable child and maternal deaths will fail to extend gains unless world leaders act now to pour more healthcare resources directly into families and communities, according to a new World Vision report launch…

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Biosensors can augment submarine sonar, vision systems

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To find prey and avoid being preyed upon, fish rely on a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line. Now, a research team led by Chang Liu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has built an artificial lateral line that can provide the same functions in underwater vehicles.

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