Humans can visually perceive the motion of a small object better than that of a large one. By contrast, according to a study reported in the journal Current Biology on September 5, babies under 6 ...

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Researchers found that people make much more accurate estimates when they have access to information about both the speed of a moving object and the timing of its rhythmic patterns. Catching a ...

To test object-selective responses in MT/MST, we presented observers with intact and scrambled images of the same set of objects (Supplementary Fig. 1, available on ...

"This volume derives from a School for Advanced Research short seminar held in Santa Fe on May 8-9, 2012, entitled Things in Motion : Object Histories, Biographies, and Itineraries. The seminar ...

Virtual reality is more immersive when you can pick up objects with your bare hands, rather than a controller or a pair of wand-style remotes. Leap Motion is one of the frontrunners in this area, ...

Catching a bouncing ball or hitting a ball with a racket requires estimating when the ball will arrive. Neuroscientists have long thought that the brain does this by calculating the speed of the ...