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Here’s how dogs really see the world

Nancy Dreschel | 
Dogs definitely see the world differently than people do, but it’s a myth that their view is just black, white ...
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Zapping the brain with electrical pulses allows blind patients to ‘see’ letters

Nicoletta Lanese | 
Scientists sent patterns of electricity coursing across people’s brains, coaxing their brains to see letters that weren’t there. The experiment ...
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7 weird facts about how humans see the world

Emma Young | 
It might be the best-studied of all our senses, but surprises about the way our vision works just keep on ...
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Vision implant skips the eyes and goes directly to the brain of blind people

Russ Juskalian | 
[Bernardeta] Gómez was given a six-month window during which she could see a very low-resolution semblance of the world represented ...
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Why your brain filters out things you don’t need to see

Jordana Cepelewicz | 
Scientists have long known that our sensory processing must automatically screen out extraneous inputs — otherwise, we couldn’t experience the ...
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When it comes to vision, computers are beating us at our own game

Kevin Hartnett | 
Does computer vision need inspiration from human vision at all? In some ways, the answer is obviously no. The information ...
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Scientists dive deep into how the brain processes vision

Pierre Fabre | 
How is the retina formed? And how do neurons differentiate to become individual components of the visual system? By focusing ...
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Humans can categorize colors they don’t have words for, research on stroke victims shows

After patient RDS (identified only by his initials for privacy) suffered a stroke, he experienced a rare and unusual side ...
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How math could explain the ‘great mystery of human vision’

Kevin Hartnett | 
This is the great mystery of human vision: Vivid pictures of the world appear before our mind’s eye, yet the ...
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Using AI to understand biological vision is another step toward engineering artificial brains

Shelly Fan | 
[Recently,] two studies independently tapped into the power of [artificial neural networks] to solve a 70-year-old neuroscience mystery: how does ...
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‘Russian blues’: How language shapes the way our brains perceive the world

Catherine Caldwell-Harris | 
Does the language you speak influence how you think? This is the question behind the famous linguistic relativity hypothesis, that the grammar ...
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Video: How does the brain act on what it sees?

Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky | 
What we see often determines how we act: We hit the brakes if a car is stopped ahead of us ...
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Synaesthesia: For those who lose their sight, colors can have sound

Vanessa Potter | 
Vanessa Potter lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled – hearing and touch changed the way she saw ...
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