Science news articles about 'visual stimulus'

  • Study suggests human visual system could make powerful computer

    ... a perception. Ideally, we would be able to glance at a complex visual stimulus (the software program), and our visual system (the hardware) would automatically and effortlessly generate a perception, ...
  • Sound adds speed to visual perception

    ... modality", the researchers claim. They propose that the auditory cue is processed more quickly than the visual stimulus, and because the monkeys have learned to associate that sound and sight, the ...
  • Dolphins maintain round-the-clock visual vigilance

    ... Next Allen Goldblatt and Don Carder designed a visual stimulus to test the dolphins' vigilance while ... tested the animals' responses to both the sound and visual stimuli. Amazingly, even after 5 days ...
  • Looking vs. seeing

    ... central neurons were the most active during this tracking behavior, despite the lack of a visual stimulus in the center of gaze. "These neurons highlighted the behavioral importance of the location ...
  • Direct recording shows brain signal persists even in dreamless sleep

    ... "goal-oriented" tasks might include looking for or studying a visual stimulus, moving an arm or leg, reading a word or listening for a sound. As the subjects perform these tasks, the scans ...
  • Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow

    ... at Washington University, gathered the data for the analysis. Researchers gave volunteers a cue that a visual stimulus would be appearing soon in a portion of a computer display screen, and asked them ...
  • Seeing a brain as it learns to see

    ... , and others will be most responsive to down-to-up or right-to-left and so on. As signals from a visual stimulus enter these brain centers for interpretation, the entire collection of neurons that has ...
  • Brain mechanisms for behavioral flexibility

    ... during both the direction and depth discrimination tasks; that is, neural activity depended on the visual stimulus and not the task itself," says Dr. Uka. This finding suggests that inputs to the MT ...
  • New insight into addictive behavior offers treatment hope

    ... determined by conscious, rapid decision processes following the detection of a Pavlovian-type visual stimulus. For example instead of the sight of a pub triggering the addictive behaviour in an ...
  • A glimpse at vision: First impressions count

    ... – picking up signals as fast as 100 milliseconds (thousandths of seconds) after presentation of a visual stimulus -- and monitor activity in very discrete, specific locations. Kreiman collaborated ...
  • Neural noise created during binocular rivalry

    ... neural correlates of awareness and consciousness. It has been known for years that the neural representation of a visual stimulus temporarily erased from awareness during binocular rivalry is weaker ...
  • Scientists obtain real time snapshot of the learning process

    ... as animals performed a learning task where they were rewarded for making a correct association between a visual stimulus and an eye movement response. The researchers found that the activity of many ...
  • Rising above the din

    ... visual scene in a single glimpse," says John H. Reynolds, Ph.D., an associate professor ... video game that required rapt attention to a visual stimulus on the screen. The internal fluctuations or shared ...
  • Brain's response to attention is studied

    LA JOLLA, Calif., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say reductions in the firing rates of the brain's background nerve cells occur when monkeys intensely focus on a visual stimulus.

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