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‘Visual clutter’ alters information flow in the brain

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...
Medical Xpress

Human vision: What we actually see, and don't see, tells us a lot about consciousness

What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story when it comes to vision. A great deal of visual processing in the brain ...
Phys.org

Golden eyes: How gold nanoparticles may one day help to restore people's vision

A new study by Brown University researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles—microscopic bits of gold thousands of times thinner than a human hair—might one day be used to help restore vision in ...
The Conversation

Brain implants to restore sight, like Neuralink’s Blindsight, face a fundamental problem − more pixels don’t ensure better vision

Elon Musk recently pronounced that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately ...
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Hands on vision experiment at a modern science museum

A visitor participates in an interactive vision experiment inside a science museum in China, designed to demonstrate how wide the human field of view can be. Using a curved measuring scale and visual ...
The Conversation

Human vision: what we actually see – and don’t see – tells us a lot about consciousness

What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story when it comes to vision. A great deal of visual processing in the brain ...