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Archerfish Get an Eye Test
March 21, 2013 — A modified version of an eye test used to assess visual acuity in the military has been given to archerfish by scientists to help explain how these remarkable fish are able to accurately spit down ... > full story -
Pavlov Inverted: Reward Linked to Image Is Enough to Activate Brain's Visual Cortex
March 21, 2013 — Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a picture with a reward, the reward by itself becomes enough to alter the activity in the monkeys' visual ... > full story -
Computerized Mannequin Changes Body Shape and Size
March 21, 2013 — At its first glance, the mannequin ‘i.Dummy’ looks no different from an ordinary dummy but it is no plain stuff - this sophisticated mannequin can change its body shape and size or even ... > full story -
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Face of the Future Rears Its Head: Digital Talking Head Expresses Human Emotions on Demand
March 19, 2013 — Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with "unprecedented realism" and could herald a new era of human-computer ... > full story -
Playing Action Videogames Improves Visual Search
March 14, 2013 — Researchers have shown that playing shooting or driving videogames, even for a relatively short time, improves the ability to search for a target hidden among irrelevant distractions in complex ... > full story -
Video Game 'Exercise' for an Hour a Day May Enhance Certain Cognitive Skills
March 13, 2013 — Playing video games for an hour each day can improve subsequent performance on cognitive tasks that use similar mental processes to those involved in the game, according to new ... > full story -
Plasmonics: Model Makes Light Work of Nanocircuits
March 13, 2013 — A numerical simulation predicts the behavior of a component that controls light for faster ... > full story -
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Signal Processing: Look-Up Tables to Shoulder the Processing Load
March 13, 2013 — Computing tasks for signal processing could be performed more quickly with less power by using look-up ... > full story -
High-Resolution Endoscope as Thin as a Human Hair
March 13, 2013 — Engineers have developed a prototype single-fiber endoscope that improves the resolution of these much-sought-after instruments fourfold over existing designs. The advance could lead to an era of ... > full story -
Plankton Adjusts to Changing Ocean Temperatures
March 8, 2013 — 3-D imaging reveals that marine plankton automatically adjusts swimming technique in dense viscosity, but only due to temperature changes, not ... > full story
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