Science news articles about 'visual phenomenon'Duke team explains a longtime visual puzzler in new way
... an entirely new way to explain a puzzling visual phenomenon called the flash-lag effect. ... experience with image speeds, which allows successful visual behavior in response to real-world sources whose ... Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures
... t so easy.
Enter Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists, who discovered a new physical phenomenon that enables them to see high frequency waves by combining molecular dynamics simulations ... Spacing, not size, matters in visual recognition, NYU researchers find
... than that spacing are "crowded" and cannot be identified. A broad review of this crowding phenomenon, appearing in the latest issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, shows that this critical spacing ... MIT study suggests caution on new anti-obesity drug in kids
... . How and where this synaptic shift occurs in the primary visual cortex has remained controversial.
Understanding the mechanism behind this phenomenon is key because the same brain mechanisms are ... Acute artificial compound eyes
... than the images actually captured by their compound eyes because the visual fields of adjacent facets overlap, and Andreas Brückner is replicating this phenomenon in a technical system. “The aim was ... Circadian math: 1 plus 1 doesn't always equal 2
... stimulation to the circadian system than would result if either color were viewed separately, a phenomenon known as "spectral opponency." The LRC scientists have shown that the circadian system shares ... MIT-led team creates touch-based illusion
... any other way—until something flips within the brain and the alternative perception is revealed. This phenomenon, known as perceptual rivalry, is of great interest to neuroscience. Because rivalrous ... Caltech neurobiologists discover individuals who 'hear' movement
... been identified. Caltech lecturer in computation and neural systems Melissa Saenz discovered the phenomenon quite by accident.
"While I was running an experiment at the Caltech Brain Imaging ... Distinguishing between 2 birds of a feather
... neurons can be strongly influenced by simple stimuli in the surround of the receptive field, a phenomenon known as contextual modulation," explains Sharpee.
To unveil how contextual modulation ... Subliminal learning demonstrated in the human brain
... outcomes and subliminal behavioral manifestations of their opponents.
To investigate this phenomenon, Dr. Pessiglione and colleagues created visual cues from scrambled, novel, abstract symbols. ... Giant honeybees use Mexican waves to repel predatory wasps
... by giant honeybee colonies in response to approaching hornets, the strength and rate of the phenomenon being linked to the hornets' flight speed and proximity.
The researchers also found that ... Simple twists of fate
... "We think it is possible that the characteristics of this genetic switch are examples of a general phenomenon that helps explain gene regulation," said Gelles. Poor gene regulation is implicated in ... Caltech scientists find cells coordinate gene activity with FM bursts
... widespread across many genes, organisms, and cell types. We're now trying to determine how general this phenomenon is by looking at what other genes and cell types use this type of system," he says.Car or pedestrian -- How we can follow objects with our eyes
... of fast moving objects than slow moving objects. "Gain control" is the name for this phenomenon, which has been known for some time now, but which has now just been recently analyzed more closely by ... Atomic-resolution views suggest function of enzyme that regulates light-detecting signals in eye
... than 3 billion years ago in early forms of life, and remained as animals and humans evolved, a phenomenon evolutionary biologists call conservation. Human GAF domains have similar protein folds, and a ...
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Duke team explains a longtime visual puzzler in new way
... an entirely new way to explain a puzzling visual phenomenon called the flash-lag effect. ... experience with image speeds, which allows successful visual behavior in response to real-world sources whose ...Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures
... t so easy. Enter Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists, who discovered a new physical phenomenon that enables them to see high frequency waves by combining molecular dynamics simulations ...Spacing, not size, matters in visual recognition, NYU researchers find
... than that spacing are "crowded" and cannot be identified. A broad review of this crowding phenomenon, appearing in the latest issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, shows that this critical spacing ...MIT study suggests caution on new anti-obesity drug in kids
... . How and where this synaptic shift occurs in the primary visual cortex has remained controversial. Understanding the mechanism behind this phenomenon is key because the same brain mechanisms are ...Acute artificial compound eyes
... than the images actually captured by their compound eyes because the visual fields of adjacent facets overlap, and Andreas Brückner is replicating this phenomenon in a technical system. “The aim was ...Circadian math: 1 plus 1 doesn't always equal 2
... stimulation to the circadian system than would result if either color were viewed separately, a phenomenon known as "spectral opponency." The LRC scientists have shown that the circadian system shares ...MIT-led team creates touch-based illusion
... any other way—until something flips within the brain and the alternative perception is revealed. This phenomenon, known as perceptual rivalry, is of great interest to neuroscience. Because rivalrous ...Caltech neurobiologists discover individuals who 'hear' movement
... been identified. Caltech lecturer in computation and neural systems Melissa Saenz discovered the phenomenon quite by accident. "While I was running an experiment at the Caltech Brain Imaging ...Distinguishing between 2 birds of a feather
... neurons can be strongly influenced by simple stimuli in the surround of the receptive field, a phenomenon known as contextual modulation," explains Sharpee. To unveil how contextual modulation ...Subliminal learning demonstrated in the human brain
... outcomes and subliminal behavioral manifestations of their opponents. To investigate this phenomenon, Dr. Pessiglione and colleagues created visual cues from scrambled, novel, abstract symbols. ...Giant honeybees use Mexican waves to repel predatory wasps
... by giant honeybee colonies in response to approaching hornets, the strength and rate of the phenomenon being linked to the hornets' flight speed and proximity. The researchers also found that ...Simple twists of fate
... "We think it is possible that the characteristics of this genetic switch are examples of a general phenomenon that helps explain gene regulation," said Gelles. Poor gene regulation is implicated in ...Caltech scientists find cells coordinate gene activity with FM bursts
... widespread across many genes, organisms, and cell types. We're now trying to determine how general this phenomenon is by looking at what other genes and cell types use this type of system," he says.Car or pedestrian -- How we can follow objects with our eyes
... of fast moving objects than slow moving objects. "Gain control" is the name for this phenomenon, which has been known for some time now, but which has now just been recently analyzed more closely by ...Atomic-resolution views suggest function of enzyme that regulates light-detecting signals in eye
... than 3 billion years ago in early forms of life, and remained as animals and humans evolved, a phenomenon evolutionary biologists call conservation. Human GAF domains have similar protein folds, and a ...