Increase in Childhood Short-Sightedness May Be Linked to COVID-19 Pandemic
A rise in cases of short-sightedness (myopia) among children in Hong Kong may be linked to a significant decrease in the time they have been…
Vision
Harvard Researchers Discover a New Real-Life Spidey Sense
Harvard study shows jumping spiders can distinguish living objects from non-living objects based on their movement. Add this to the list of real-life spidey senses:…
How Spiders Can Distinguish Living From Non-Living Objects in Their Peripheral Vision
Ability to identify other animals from relative positioning of the joints not unique to vertebrates. Jumping spiders can distinguish living from non-living objects in their…
Breakthrough Insights From Color-Blind Octopus Help Fight Human Sight Loss
University of Bristol research into octopus vision has led to a quick and easy test that helps optometrists identify people who are at greater risk…
Scientists Discover That the Shape of Light Changes Our Vision
Scientists at the UNIGE have shown that the response of the retina to light depends not only on the intensity of the light perceived by…
Advanced Computer Model Enables Improvements to “Bionic Eye” Technology
Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC develop signals that could bring color vision and improved clarity to prosthesis for the blind. There are…
Scientific Research Uncovers Benefits of Reading Outdoors
Contrast is a sensory property that makes stimuli stand out. Writers, designers, and musicians all use contrast to emphasize striking differences in text, visual displays…
Intelligent Cameras That Can Learn and Understand What They Are Seeing
Intelligent cameras could be one step closer thanks to a research collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Manchester who have developed cameras that can…
Eye Position Affects Your Auditory Spatial Attention – Where to Look to Improve “Cocktail Party” Listening
Eye position has a modest but measurable impact on speech intelligibility within a cocktail party setting. Several acoustic studies have shown that the position of…
Incredible Vision in Ancient “Radiating Teeth” Deep Sea Creatures Drove an Evolutionary Arms Race
Ancient marine creatures called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove an evolutionary arms race according to new research published on December 2, 2020. The…
The World’s Smallest Primate Reveals the Incredible Preservation of Our Visual System Through Millions of Years of Evolution
Primates process visual information in front of their eyes, similar to pixels in a digital camera, using small computing units located in the visual cortex…
Scientists Reverse the Aging Clock: Restore Age-Related Vision Loss Through Epigenetic Reprogramming
Proof-of-concept study represents first successful attempt to reverse the aging clock in animals through epigenetic reprogramming. Scientists turned on embryonic genes to reprogram cells of…
Neural Networks Tricked by Optical Illusions in the Same Way That Humans Are Deceived
Do neural networks dream visual illusions? This is the question studied by researchers at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, led by Marcelo Bertalmío…
Multifocal Contact Lenses Slow Progression of Nearsightedness in Children
NIH-funded clinical trial provides independent evidence that multifocal contact lenses reduce worsening myopia. Children wearing multifocal contact lenses had slower progression of their myopia, according…
Is What I See, What I Imagine? Neural Overlap Discovered Between Vision and Imagination
Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Current Biology that the brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision, but it uses…
Looking at Deep Red Light for Just Minutes a Day Significantly Improves Declining Eyesight
Staring at a deep red light for three minutes a day can significantly improve declining eyesight, finds a new UCL-led study, the first of its…
MIT Neuroscientists Investigate the Real Reason Behind a Classic Visual Illusion
Neuroscientists delve into how background brightness influences our perception of an object. It’s a classic visual illusion: Two gray dots appear on a background that…
Hummingbirds See Spectacular Colors Humans Can Only Imagine – Comparatively, We’re Color-Blind
Princeton-led team trains wild hummingbirds to discriminate UV color combinations. To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their…