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First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Duke University

Gamers see world differently says Duke School of Medicine

Hours spent duking it out on your favourite first-person shooter video game has more benefits than just stress relief, researchers from Duke University have found, according to a Duke Today press release.“[Gamers] are able to extract more information ... [Published Imprint Online - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Psychophysics, First-Person Shooter, Duke University

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 3 reports

Duke University School of Medicine

Video Gamers May Have Better Visual Recall

FRIDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) — In a new finding sure to be shared with some skeptical parents, it seems that the brains of video game enthusiasts make better and faster use of visual input.“Gamers see the world differently,” study author Greg Appelbaum, ... [Published Health.com - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Video Games, Duke University School of Medicine, Psychophysics, American Psychological Association

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Young blokes blinded by video-game addiction: THE FACTS

"You'll go blind!" many a parent have barked at their kids for playing video games all day. But military-funded scientists have proved quite the opposite is true.Eggheads at Duke School of Medicine have claimed that gamers are better at processing visual ... [Published The Register - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Video Games, Memory, Psychophysics, DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

First reported Jun 08 2013 - Updated Jun 08 2013 - 1 reports

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Far from the formidable scientist I’m expecting to meet, one rated both by Time and Newsweek as among the 100 people to watch out for, the man who greets me in San Diego where he teaches and has conducted much of his experiments extends a warm welcome. ... [Published Outlook India - Jun 08 2013]

Entities: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, San Diego (California, United States), Psychophysics

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Publishing

Pulling the Curtain Back From Scientific Publishing

There’s a fear that the science that gets published—and remember it’s still “publish or perish,” even as “fundraise or perish” moves up on the outside–is the science that shows the experiment succeeding. While on first blush that might not seem so awful, ... [Published Pacific Standard - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Publishing, Replication, Life Science, Clinical trials

First reported Jun 02 2013 - Updated Jun 02 2013 - 1 reports

Near Their Thresholds for Detection, Shapes Are Discriminated by the Angular Separation of Their Corners

by J. Edwin Dickinson, Jason Bell, David R. BadcockObservers make sense of scenes by parsing images on the retina into meaningful objects. This ability is retained for line drawings, demonstrating that critical information is concentrated at object boundaries. ... [Published Elites TV - Jun 02 2013]

Entities: Curvature, Psychophysics, PLoS ONE, Consortium

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Neural information processing systems conference and workshops (NIPS 2013)

CfP: Neural Information Processing Systems 2013Neural Information Processing Systems Conference and WorkshopsDecember 5-10, 2013Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USADeadline for Paper Submissions: Friday, May 31, 2013, 11 pm Universal Time (4pm Pacific Daylight Time). ... [Published Eventseer.net - May 31 2013]

Entities: Informatics, Psychophysics, Universal Time, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Spectral Context Affects Temporal Processing in Awake Auditory Cortex

Amplitude modulation encoding is critical for human speech perception and complex sound processing in general. The modulation transfer function (MTF) is a staple of auditory psychophysics, and has been shown to predict speech intelligibility performance ... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 29 2013]

Entities: Auditory Cortex, Amplitude Modulation, Psychophysics

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Dunn Vision Reference 1.2.4

The Dunn Vision Reference is a glossary containing advanced terms in optometry, ophthalmology and vision science. This pocket guide is an indispensable tool for medical and optometry students. Definitions are deliberately brief in order to provide the ... [Published Addict3d.org - May 29 2013]

Entities: Optometry, Psychophysics, Ophthalmology, Physiology, Dispensing

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Intentive Communications launches new natural user interface

Intentive Communications Corp., a provider of visual natural user interfaces, has announced the launch of uCentric, a natural user interface, or NUI, that allows a person to use gestures for remote interaction with visual displays of all sorts, including ... [Published Individual.com - May 29 2013]

Entities: Psychophysics, Interaction, Machine Learning, Replication, Open Source

First reported May 26 2013 - Updated May 26 2013 - 1 reports

School of Psychology and Psychiatry Research Seminar: How do neurotransmitters help decide what we see and do?

In neuroscience, one pervading mystery is how the brain is able to generate an “internal” perceptual experience from the available “external” sensory information. Ambiguous stimuli, like binocular rivalry and the Necker cube, offer a unique means to investigate ... [Published Monash University - May 26 2013]

Entities: Neurotransmitter, Psychiatry, Psychophysics

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

Investigators from National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Zero in on Artificial Organs

(NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Blood Weekly -- Investigators discuss new findings in Artificial Organs. According to news originating from Paris, France, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Psychophysical studies have verified ... [Published NewsRX - May 25 2013]

Entities: French National Centre for Scientific Research, Psychophysics, Paris, France

Quotes

"What I wanted to do was be a good tech writer who understood how things worked" Luckey says

Virtual reality revolution [Published stuff.co.nz - Jun 17 2013]

"They need less information to arrive at a probabilistic conclusion, and they do it faster" he said

Gamers' lightning fast brains [Published NEWS.com.au - Jun 14 2013]

...value eye tracking offers a variety of academia and business-related industries," said Tom Englund, president of analysis solutions at Tobii. "We are constantly impressed by the caliber of our customers' work and how they are continuously expanding the applications for eye tracking. Now, with the new Analytics SDK and the partner program, we hope to see even more advancements achieved."

Tobii Rolls Out New Analytics SDK with Free Matlab Bindings [Published Individual.com - Jun 10 2013]

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Virtual reality revolution [Published stuff.co.nz - Jun 17 2013]
Gamers see world differently says Duke School o... [Published Imprint Online - Jun 15 2013]
Video Gamers May Have Better Visual Recall [Published Health.com - Jun 14 2013]
Tinnitus, Unipolar Brush Cells, and Cerebellar ... [Published Elites TV - Jun 14 2013]
Gamers' lightning fast brains [Published NEWS.com.au - Jun 14 2013]
Video gamers 'see the world differently,' study... [Published New York Daily News - Jun 13 2013]
Young blokes blinded by video-game addiction: T... [Published The Register - Jun 13 2013]
Video gamers outperform nongamers in vision test [Published CNET News - Jun 12 2013]
Gamers Show Better Visual And Decision-Making... [Published Red Orbit - Jun 12 2013]
Study: hardcore gamers have enhanced visual abi... [Published Wired.co.uk - Jun 12 2013]
Now you see it, now you don’t: On the deepening... [Published Core Economics - Jun 11 2013]
Video Gamers Really Do See More [Published Duke University - Jun 11 2013]
Tobii Rolls Out New Analytics SDK with Free Mat... [Published Individual.com - Jun 10 2013]
Palmer Luckey’s Oculus Rift could be a virtual ... [Published Los Angeles Times - Jun 08 2013]
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran [Published Outlook India - Jun 08 2013]
Pulling the Curtain Back From Scientific Publis... [Published Pacific Standard - Jun 06 2013]
Trust in science would be improved by study pre... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Jun 05 2013]
Tobii Releases Powerful New Analytics SDK with ... [Published MyNewsDesk - Jun 04 2013]
AI On The Rise Weekly: IBM’s AI Chef, Robots Di... [Published SiliconANGLE - Jun 03 2013]
Near Their Thresholds for Detection, Shapes Are... [Published Elites TV - Jun 02 2013]
Neural information processing systems conferenc... [Published Eventseer.net - May 31 2013]
Spectral Context Affects Temporal Processing in... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 29 2013]
Dunn Vision Reference 1.2.4 [Published Addict3d.org - May 29 2013]
Intentive Communications launches new natural u... [Published Individual.com - May 29 2013]
School of Psychology and Psychiatry Research Se... [Published Monash University - May 26 2013]
Investigators from National Center for Scientif... [Published NewsRX - May 25 2013]
The Role of Harmonic Resolvability in Pitch Per... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 22 2013]
Watson Tries to Understand Creativity [Published Beyond Search - May 13 2013]
Happiness: There's an app for that [Published PhysOrg.com - Apr 30 2013]
The Autistic Child – More Than Meets the Eye [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 02 2013]

Blogs

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Now you see it, now you don’t: On the deepening... [Published Core Economics - Jun 11 2013] Yesterday I stated my understanding of the problem . So, what to do in light of the deepening crisis? First, in a recent open letter published in “The Guardian “ more than 70 researchers have argued that scientific journals ought to allow pre-registered ...
AI On The Rise Weekly: IBM’s AI Chef, Robots Di... [Published SiliconANGLE - Jun 03 2013] The first time the public laid eyes on Google Glass, there were more questions than praise. The main concern would be security and privacy. How can you feel safe partying in a club when a man wearing Google Glass walks in and stealthily take photos ...
Watson Tries to Understand Creativity [Published Beyond Search - May 13 2013] IBM’s Watson has already conquered Jeopardy, but now he aims to conquer the kitchen in inventing new culinary delights. Fast Company notes the endeavor in “Try The First Recipe Devised By IBM’s Supercomputer Chef.” Taking on cooking is part of ...
The Autistic Child – More Than Meets the Eye [Published Brain Blogger - Mar 02 2013] Sensory Processing Issues and Autism Until recently, the sensory integration issues that plague many individuals on the autism spectrum have taken a back seat to the more commonly identified social and communication issues traditionally used to diagnose ...
How do we perceive risk?: Paul Slovic’s landmar... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Jan 16 2013] By Sara Gorman In the 1960s, a rapid rise in nuclear technologies aroused unexpected panic in the public. Despite repeated affirmations from the scientific community that these technologies were indeed safe, the public feared both long-term dangers ...