The space within reach of our hands - where actions such as grasping and touching occur - is known as the "action space." Research has shown that visual information in this area is organized in hand-centered coordinates - in other words, the representation of objects in the human brain depends on their physical location with respect to the hand...
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August 14, 2009
Brain Innately Separates Living And Non-living Objects For Processing
For unknown reasons, the human brain distinctly separates the handling of images of living things from images of non-living things, processing each image type in a different area of the brain. For years, many scientists have assumed the brain segregated visual information in this manner to optimize processing the images themselves, but new research shows that even in people who have been blind si
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July 30, 2009
Men And Women See Things Differently
Sex differences in how the brain processes visual information could be a legacy of our hunter-gather past. This is the conclusion of a paper published online today, 30th July 2009, in the British Journal of Psychology.
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April 29, 2009
Some Short-term Memories Die Suddenly, No Fading
Researchers have found that the temporary, working memories that the brain uses to process visual information may last for several seconds with little or no loss of precision. After that, they begin to wink out, but remain accurate until they disappear.
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