Women better with colors
A study examining visual processing in the brain found that men have greater sensitivity to detail and rapidly moving stimuli,…
Reading: up close and personal
There are no significant gender-related differences in the eye’s ability to focus at near distances, so scientists have been looking…
Deaf cats reveal secrets of super vision
Deaf people often report enhanced abilities in their remaining senses, but up until now no one has explained how this…
Invariance And Computer Vision
In work that could lead to much-improved computer vision systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) neuroscientists have tricked the visual…
Brain’s Secondary Depth-Perception Mechanism Uncovered
Humans and other animals are able to visually judge depth because we have two eyes and the brain compares the…
Did Trichromatic Vision Evolve Because of Colorful Bottoms Or Colorful Fruit?
Primates that can distinguish red hues from green ones (trichromatic color vision) have been the cause of much debate among…
Three (No Longer) Blind Mice
Gene therapy has been successfully used to restore sight in mice with a form of hereditary blindness; possibly leading to…
Artificial Eye Borrows From Nature
Using dragonflies and houseflies as models, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a series of artificial compound…
Pond Scum Could Restore Vision
The latest issue of the journal Neuron details how scientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the…