Study Shows Where Scene Context Happens In Our Brain
University of California - Santa Barbara In a remote fishing community in Venezuela, a lone fisherman sits on a cliff overlooking the southern Caribbean Sea. This man –– the lookout –– is responsible for directing his comrades on the...
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Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) recently discovered that the best way to look at a person’s face is below their eyes, providing an explanation that is also linked to cultural background and other similar factors. "It's pretty fast, it's effortless –– we're not really aware of what we're doing," explained Miguel Eckstein, a professor of psychology in the Department of Psychological & Brain...
You're headed out the door and you realize you don't have your car keys. After a few minutes of rifling through pockets, checking the seat cushions and scanning the coffee table, you find the familiar key ring and off you go. Easy enough, right? What you might not know is that the task that took you a couple seconds to complete is a task that computers –– despite decades of advancement and intricate calculations –– still can't perform as efficiently as humans: the visual search....
