Latest Perception Stories

Read my exclusive interview with Dr. Matthew Longo about his research. Jedidiah Becker for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online One of the many mind-bending lessons that neuroscience has taught us in recent years is that our brain often ‘fudges’ the picture of reality that it gives us. For a very simple at-home demonstration of this cognitive trickery, stand in front of a mirror and alternate back and forth between looking at your left eye, then your right eye. No matter how hard...

PERTH, Australia, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A novel patented technology (Algotect) has been developed to accurately identify patients who are cold hyperalgesic and require specific pain management. A recent Australian clinical trial (n=80) conducted with funding from a multi-national pharmaceutical company clearly segmented a group of knee osteoarthritis patients into those that had more pain, more disability, more widespread hyperalgesia and more neuropathic pain symptoms. This...

Tinnitus Miracle is one program that continues to get positive reviews and has been used by hundreds of thousands of people. (PRWEB) October 21, 2012 This is an all natural and safe method that will help one to re-balance their body so that their tinnitus goes away on its own. In most cases, one should be able to get rid of the ringing in their ears within two months, simply by following the easy five step method that most doctors don’t even know about. "There are many reasons for...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online There are noises that set our teeth on edge, make us recoil, and generally unnerve us. For me, that noise is the sound of someone popping his or her back. Scientists from Newcastle University and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging say heightened activity between the emotional and auditory areas of the brain can explain why the sound of chalk on a blackboard, a knife on a bottle, or a joint popping is so unpleasant. A new...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The workings of the inner ear have been long thought to be well documented and understood. Previous research has found that tiny hairs, known as stereocilia, are attached to sensory cells in the inner ear and move side to side with the reverberations of sound, transferring this sound into the ear, where it is then picked up and translated by the brain. In an effort to better understand these movements and how they are interpreted...

BETHLEHEM, Pa., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Developing tinnitus can be more than bothersome. Individuals' reactions to the tinnitus perception can include mild annoyance, anxiety, depression, insomnia and other serious medical issues. Tinnitus is often described as buzzing, ringing, hissing, humming, roaring, or whistling that someone hears in the absence of any external sound. More than 50 million people in the United States alone suffer from the condition, according to the...

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online We’ve all heard the expression, “One hand washes the other”. But according to a recent study, we are learning that an action such as this, or even a mundane task, performed by an estimated 54 percent of Americans daily, such as drinking a cup of coffee, involves a complex set of decisions that our brain must make, often times while hiding the entirety of the decision-making process from us. In the coffee example, your eyes,...

Our brains are better at hearing new and approaching sounds than detecting when a sound disappears, according to a study published today funded by the Wellcome Trust. The findings could explain why parents often fail to notice the sudden quiet from the playroom that usually accompanies the onset of mischief. Hearing plays an important role as an early warning system to rapidly direct our attention to new events. Indeed we often rely on sounds to alert us to things that are happening around...

Exposure to objects associated with 1 gender make viewers think androgynous face is the opposite gender Spending too much time looking at high heels may influence how a viewer perceives the gender of an androgynous face, according to new research published Sep. 26 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Amir Homayoun Javadi of Technische Universität, Dresden and his colleagues. The study sheds new light on how the objects surrounding us may influence our perceptions of gender. The...

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ONYX Graphics, Inc. is inviting attendees to the Specialty Graphic and Imaging Association (SGIA) annual exhibition to "Stump the Color Scientist." Rohit Patil, ONYX Graphics Color Scientist, will be on hand to answer any questions - from wide format workflow to ICC profile generation and various color management topics in-between - posed by visitors. He will be in the ONYX Graphics booth 2779 at the SGIA exhibition, October 18-20, at...