Category: Senses
-
Going blind…
Go stand in front of a mirror. Hold still, and look around, moving only your eyes. Look left, right, up, down. Look at one eye, then the other. Their reflection is right there in front of you, but no matter how hard you try, you'll never see your eyes move. That's because when your eyes…
-
Past experiences. Looking at yourself…
Past experiences shape what we see more than what we are looking at now. A new study argues that humans recognize what they are looking at by combining current sensory stimuli with comparisons to images stored in memory. (1) Seeing what you see. Only because you have seen other things before. Go back. And try…
-
Quantum mechanics. Time. Causality. Irrational. Hiding the meaning of life…
Watch a movie backwards and you'll likely get confused - but a quantum computer wouldn't. That's the conclusion of researcher Mile Gu at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University and collaborators. In research published in Physical Review X, the international team showed that a quantum…
-
Virtual real reality…
Future therapy patients may spend a lot more time exploring virtual environments than sitting on sofas. In a clinical trial of a new virtual reality treatment for fear of heights, participants reported being much less afraid after using the program for just two weeks. Unlike other VR therapies, which required that a real-life therapist guide…
-
Sensing… Not sensing… Being…
Engineers have created an electronic 'skin' in an effort to restore a real sense of touch for amputees using prosthetics. (1) We have senses. We lose senses. We improve senses. We regain senses. And at no point do we ever stop to wander. That what can so easily change. Cannot truly exist after all… In…
You must be logged in to post a comment.