Science news articles about 'visual cues'

  • Gut hormone makes food look even yummier

    ... to food pictures in several brain regions involved in the salience and hedonic incentive value of visual cues, including the amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, insula, visual areas, and striatum, the ...
  • Take the Bite Out of Backyard Living

    ... the backyard population of dangerous biting mosquitoes is by using a combination of CO2, heat, moisture, visual cues and scent. An innovative, propane-fueled insect control technology has been ...
  • Plastic brain outsmarts experts

    ... using a complex training task called "dual n-back training," which presented both auditory and visual cues that participants had to temporarily store and recall. Participants received the ...
  • Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention

    ... presented either from the same loudspeaker or from different ones chosen randomly on each digit. Visual cues – lights – indicated the target loudspeaker at each temporal position in the sequence. The ...
  • Subliminal learning demonstrated in the human brain

    ... of their opponents. To investigate this phenomenon, Dr. Pessiglione and colleagues created visual cues from scrambled, novel, abstract symbols. Visual awareness was assessed by displaying two of the ...
  • Surgery By Numbers

    ... developed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Center for Imaging Technology and Molecular Diagnostics in Boston is giving cutters visual cues on just where to aim their scalpels. read more
  • Directing a driver's gaze results in smoother steering

    ... a wide field of view and highlights key features in the visual scene," adds Dr. Mars. "This study may help answer the question of which visual cues should be made available in such displays." The ...
  • Giant honeybees use Mexican waves to repel predatory wasps

    ... predators such as wasps and mammals are targeted—these are thought to be influenced by the dynamic visual cues of shimmering. In their paper, Kastberger and colleagues show that shimmering is ...
  • Step right up, let the computer look at your face and tell you your age

    ... conditions. "Human faces do convey a significant amount of information, however, and provide important visual cues for estimating age," Huang said. "Facial attributes, such as expression, gender and ...
  • This is your brain on politics

    ... . Brader wanted to test the effect of these audio and visual cues on both types of ads, so he ... -good ad" either with strong emotional cues, such as children playing outside or sitting in a classroom, ...
  • Baseball Brains - Fielding Into The World Series

    ... his controlled speed to arrive just when the ball did? What visual cues did he use to track the ball's flight? Did Willie Mays make the most famous catch in baseball history because ...
  • Female plant 'communicates' rejection or acceptance of male

    ... control fertilization between cross species, and lead to a more efficient way of growing fruit trees. "Unlike an animal's visual cues about mate selection, a plant's mate recognition takes ...
  • DVR fast-forwarding may not be fatal to TV advertising

    ... of a second out of a 30-second spot, Brasel said. But the speed of the play-back removes visual cues and motion that attract attention to brand images that lay along the periphery of the TV screen. ...
  • MRI reveals relationship between depression and pain

    ... to 116 degrees Fahrenheit) and also to non-painful temperatures. Visual cues (a green shape for non-painful warmth and a red shape for painful warmth) were presented before the ...
  • Music Technology Researchers Create New Robotic Percussionist

    ... sophisticated algorithms for music perception and improvisation in comparison to Haile, Georgia Tech`s first robotic drummer. The robot can also create richer sound and more communicative visual cues.

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