Vision keeps maturing until mid-life
From the McMaster University press release: The visual cortex, the human brain’s vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature and stabilize in the first few years of life, actually… Read more »
Tag: senses
Researchers decipher the enigma of how faces are encoded in the brain
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From the Cell Press press release: When you look at photos of faces, your brain is able to instantly identify the ones that you know–whether they’re your mother or your… Read more »
Visual perception may depend on birthplace and environment
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From the Kyoto University press release: Perhaps we only see what we’ve learned to see. In a recent multinational study in the journal Cognitive Science, a research team led by Kyoto… Read more »
Seeing life in fast-forward: Visual brain predicts future events based on past experience
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From the Radboud University press release: For a long time, researchers thought of the visual cortex as a brain area that determines what you perceive based on information coming from… Read more »
Humans rely more on ‘inferred’ visual objects than ‘real’ ones
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From the eLife press release: Humans treat ‘inferred’ visual objects generated by the brain as more reliable than external images from the real world, according to new research published in… Read more »
Study suggests voice and scent play a role in attractiveness
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From the Frontiers press release: Attractiveness isn’t just a matter of good looks, but also the right voice and scent, highlights a mini review in Frontiers in Psychology. “Recently, most… Read more »
Study suggests human sense of smell is stronger than we think
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From the Rutgers University press release: When it comes to our sense of smell, we have been led to believe that animals win out over humans: No way can we… Read more »
Critical to screen patients with rheumatoid arthritis for hearing impairment
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From the Bentham Science Publishers media release: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common autoimmune arthritis, affecting 1% of the general population. Despite its main articular manifestations, RA caninvolveextra-articular organs including… Read more »