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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vision, just like speed and strength, is an important component in how well you play your sport. But, there is much more to vision than just seeing clearly. On the new edition of Healthy Vision(TM) with Dr. Val Jones, optometrist and researcher Graham Erickson, O.D. talks with Dr. Val about the relationship between vision and sports performance, and Olympic champion sprinter Allyson Felix explains how good vision helps her cross the finish...
Unlike adults, children are able to keep information from their senses separate and may therefore perceive the visual world differently, according to research published today.Scientists at UCL (University College London) and Birkbeck, University of London have found that children younger than 12 do not combine different sensory information to make sense of the world as adults do. This does not only apply to combining different senses, such as vision and sound, but also to the different...
Watching 3D television under normal conditions is unlikely to be damaging to the human visual system, scientists from The Vision Centre say.Commenting on possible health risks raised by some experts with the advent of 3D television, Professor Colin Clifford of The Vision Centre and The University of Sydney, an authority on how the brain interprets the visual signals from the eyes, says it is very unlikely that 3DTV could cause any long-term harm, provided people only watched it for a few...
ST. LOUIS, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- As Hollywood prepares for a summer filled with 3-D blockbuster hopefuls and cable networks launch 3-D networks and programming for newly-released 3-D televisions, the trend towards this new technology is hard to miss -- except for the millions of Americans who literally can't see it. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/aoa/43612/ (Photo:...
Hammerhead sharks are some of the Ocean's most distinctive residents. 'Everyone wants to understand why they have this strange head shape,' says Michelle McComb from Florida Atlantic University. One possible reason is the shark's vision. 'Perhaps their visual field has been enhanced by their weird head shape,' says McComb, giving the sharks excellent stereovision and depth perception. However, according to McComb, there were two schools of thought on this theory. In 1942, G. Walls speculated...
AURORA, Ohio, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Super Bowl commercials will provide a unique opportunity to screen for amblyopia and other vision problems which make 3D vision impossible. If you can't see the 3D effects, you may have a vision problem, advises the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD). Thanks to DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., PepsiCo's SoBe Lifewater, Intel Corporation and NBC, a first-of-its kind, nationwide 'Monstrous' 3D event for Super Bowl XLIII will...
By Hughes, Gordon Of all of the movements lucky enough to have been caught in the tangles of Alfred Barr's spider-web chart of modern art (Fig. 1), only one, Orphism-Guillaume Apollinaire's misbegotten term and attempt to unite the post-Cubist abstraction of Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Lger, and Francis Picabia-goes nowhere.1 That the diagrammatic arrow leading from Cubism to Orphism ends in what Barr sees as the sole cul-de-sac in twentieth-century art is surprising given that...
