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Category: Animal Behaviour
Box jellyfish navigate using terrestrial visual cues, with highly speclialized eyes that always point up towards the water surface
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Category: Vintage Illustrations
Click to enlarge images ARTISTS employ a number of different techniques to represent implied motion in two-dimensional works. One of these, commonly used in posters, comics and animation, is the affine shear effect, whereby a moving object is depicted as...
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Category: Neuroscience
A temporal illusion in which an effect is perceived after its cause reveals details of how visual events enter conscious awareness
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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from UCL report that seeing one's body while a painful stimulus is applied to it significantly reduces the experience of pain
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Category: Neuroscience
Muller cells function as fibre optic cables, transporting light through the retina
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Category: Neuroscience
MIT researchers show that touch modulates vision
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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that the contents of visual working memory can be accurately predicted by decoding neural activity in the visual cortex
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Category: Neuroscience
Recent advances in functional neuroimaging have enabled researchers to predict perceptual experiences with a high degree of accuracy. For example, it is possible to determine whether a subject is looking at a face or some other category of visual stimulus,...
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Category: Neuroscience
The Men's Final of the 1981 Wimbledon Tennis Championships is one of the most memorable events in sporting history. John McEnroe, who was playing against Bjorn Borg, famously challenged one of the referee's calls by throwing a tantrum, during which...
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Category: Vision
The pioneering experiments performed by Hubel and Weisel in the late 1950s and early 60s taught us much about the development of the visual system. We now know, for example, that neurons in the visual cortex are organized into alternating...
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