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·December 13, 2016·3 min read

Your Left Hand Knows What Your Right Hand is Doing

Findings using virtual reality could help to improve treatments for people with limited hand strength.

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·December 9, 2016·4 min read

Illusion Reveals the Brain Fills in Peripheral Vision

According to a new study, the things we see with our peripheral vision may sometimes be an optical illusion.

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·November 30, 2016·5 min read

Video Game Helps Children With Poor Vision to See Better

Researchers report children with poor vision experience an improvement in their peripheral vision within hours of being exposed to child friendly action video games.

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·November 28, 2016·3 min read

Study Finds Cause of Visual Impairment in Astronauts

A new study reveals a possible cause of visual impairment in astronauts.

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·November 21, 2016·5 min read

Alzheimer’s Proteins Could Be At Fault For Leading Cause of Vision Loss in Older People

A new study reports amyloid beta proteins are able to accumulate in the retina and damage it, which may result in age related macular degeneration in older people.

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·November 18, 2016·6 min read

Ducklings Maintain Two Separate Memory Banks of Visual Information

Researchers report newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with only one eye do not recognize it when they have only the other eye available.

Image shows retinal cells responding to a natural movie clip.

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·November 17, 2016·3 min read

Neurons in the Human Eye Are Organized for Error Correction

According to researchers, retinal ganglion cells act collectively to correct visual errors and improve accuracy.

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·November 16, 2016·6 min read

New Gene-Editing Technology Partially Restores Vision in Blind Animals

Researchers use gene editing technology to help partially restore vision to blind rodents.

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·November 11, 2016·4 min read

Deviations From Expectations: Detecting Moving Objects

Researchers have identified neurons in the visual cortex that enable the detection of moving objects as we move along.

Image shows a neuron projection from the visual cortex.

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·October 12, 2016·4 min read

Visual Cortex Plays Role in Plasticity of Eye Movement Reflex

Researchers discover an unexpected role for the visual cortex in promoting the plasticity of innate eye movements.

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·September 30, 2016·3 min read

New Optical Illusion Throws Light on Brain’s Perception of Transparency

A new study reports researchers have created a new optical illusion which helps to reveal how our brains determine the material properties of an object.