Latest Perception Stories

Sublime Beauty®, an anti-aging skin care company, offers an incredibly simple yet powerful tip on how to have better skin, better circulation and better health starting today. And the company offers 15% off for a limited time. St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) April 30, 2013 Everyone wants better skin and better health. Sublime Beauty® introduces a very simple yet very powerful tip to help everyone attain both. This simple technique has long been overlooked: Skin Brushing! Skin...

Tees For Your Head's product offerings continue to expand, now offering a fun and geeky line of illusions to their tees, in sizes from toddler to 6XL. Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2013 Tees For Your Head designer Tom Bates has been wearing the his optical illusion tees around town, and they are provoking comments. Noting the reaction, his nerdy t-shirt company created a category just for illusions and is steadily adding original designs. Bates has been studying both brain behavior...

International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) We know the world through the sensory representations within our brain. Such "reconstruction" is performed through the electrical activation of neural cells, the code that contains the information that is constantly processed by the brain. If we wish to understand what are the rules followed by the representation of the world inside the brain we have to comprehend how electrical activation is linked to the sensory experience. For this...

UC Berkeley study shows how we refocus to track down a human, animal or thing A contact lens on the bathroom floor, an escaped hamster in the backyard, a car key in a bed of gravel: How are we able to focus so sharply to find that proverbial needle in a haystack? Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered that when we embark on a targeted search, various visual and non-visual regions of the brain mobilize to track down a person, animal or thing. That means...

Questions raised about using a single animal model in neuroscience research COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To get a clear picture of how humans and other mammals form memories and find their way through their surroundings, neuroscientists must pay more attention to a broad range of animals rather than focus on a single model species, say two University of Maryland (UMD) researchers, Katrina MacLeod and Cynthia Moss. Their new comparative study of bats and...

PORTLAND, Ore., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Tinnitus Association (ATA) announced today that National Tinnitus Awareness Week (TAW) will be celebrated May 19 - 25, 2013. This year, ATA is saluting members of the United States military and all our veterans who have selflessly served, because they suffer from tinnitus disproportionately from the rest of the civilian population. For the past five years, tinnitus has been the number one service-connected...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online When people escape from the grind of their day-to-day lives and travel to remote, tranquil places, they often claim to “turn off” their brains so that they can soak in the calm, relaxing environment. Despite how restful things might seem, however, new research from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California reveals that a person’s mind – and more specifically, their visual system – is working just as hard as...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Physicians are often concerned about pain their patients may be experiencing, but without a way to quantify it, the experience of pain can be somewhat subjective and abstract. According to a new report in The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of American researchers has set out to determine how much pain a person is experiencing by looking at the brain’s reaction to it. Using Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),...

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Like the old saying, “I’m not paranoid. They really are out to get me,” vision scientists have determined individuals will likely think people are staring at them even when they aren’t. While this fact has been determined, the theories behind why it is so are varied and interesting. The study, entitled “Humans have an expectation that gaze is directed toward them” is authored by Isabelle Mareschal, Andrew J. Calder and...

University of North Carolina Health Care A study from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine offers new insights into how the nervous system processes hot and cold temperatures. The research led by neuroscientist Mark J. Zylka, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, found an interaction between the neural circuits that detect hot and cold stimuli: cold perception is enhanced when nerve circuitry for heat is inactivated. "This discovery has implications for...