Reward improves visual perceptual learning, but only after people sleep
Reward does not improve visual perception learning unless it is followed by a good night's sleep.... Read More...
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How do fruit flies see in color?
Researchers have identified a circuit in the brains of fruit flies, which enables them to see in color. The network is similar to that which allows human color vision. The findings could help in the development of AI technologies.... Read More...
Through the eyes of animals
New computer software sheds light on animal visual processing and perception.... Read More...
Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw
Crashes in visual processing occur when neurons processing one image are tasked with processing another too quickly. This results in either one or both images being unable to reach our conscious awareness.... Read More...
A computer that understands how you feel
EmoNet, a new convolutional neural network, can accurately decode images into eleven distinct emotional categories. Training the AI on over 25,000 images, researchers demonstrate image content is sufficient to predict the category and valence of human emotions. ... Read More...
Scientists discover how mosquito brains integrate diverse sensory cues to find a host
An asymmetric coupling between the peripheral visual and olfactory sensory systems allows for enhanced steering response to discrete objects in mosquitos.... Read More...
Why are we able to see moving objects against moving backgrounds?
The human brain can desensitize background motion and focus on smaller moving objects in the foreground as a result of activity in the middle temporal visual area. However, our ability to pick out smaller objects changes over time. Younger people are better at picking out foreground objects moving, while those over 65 have heightened awareness of objects moving in the background.... Read More...
Breakthrough in understanding how human eyes process 3D motion
Two distinct pathways in the visual system allow us to process 3D motion.... Read More...
Study identifies our ‘inner pickpocket’
People are able to form the correct mental model of puzzles from either visual or haptic experiences alone and are able to predict haptic properties from visual ones. Findings suggest humans segment scenes into objects without explicit boundary cues by using purely statistical information.... Read More...
Optical illusions reveal regular waves of brain activity enable visual feature integration
Optical illusions are helping researchers better understand attention and visual perception. Findings suggest attention operates periodically on the perceptual binding of visual information.... Read More...
“Number sense” arises from the recognition of visible objects
Results from a new artificial intelligence study indicate number sense is spontaneously created by the visual system, without prior experience of counting.... Read More...
Artificial intelligence reveals what neurons in the visual cortex prefer to look at
A new deep learning algorithm can reliably determine what visual stimuli neurons in the visual cortex respond best to.... Read More...