Visual effects

two wires. One tightened just above the eyes and the other wrapped around the legs. The effect of this caused the experience on a flame like sensation passing downward in front of the eye.”1 This was the first time an electrical device successfully performed a flicker of visual perception. Now-a-days we have come a long way in our technology of prosthetics. New Visual prostheses aim to provide patients with visual information by stimulating…

literature has demonstrated that exposure to emotionally arousing stimuli can alter the perceptual mechanisms of participants. The present experiments attempted to expand this research to examine cross-modal vision and audition. Emotion Processing in the Visual Modality The mechanisms responsible for emotion processing have been selected over the course of generations as they confer survival advantages. Susskind, Lee, Cusi, Feiman, Grabski, and Anderson (2008)…

Speech is the transmission of thoughts or feeling from the mind of a speaker, to the mind of a listener (Fowler, 2003). It involves many complex actions in order to both produce and perceive it. Speech perception refers to the process in which speech sounds are heard, interpreted and subsequently understood. Research into the area of speech perception aims to gain an understanding into how humans listen to and recognise speech sounds, and then use that information to understand spoken language…

“Experts See it All: Configural Effects in Action Observation” by Calvo-Merino et al. expanded on that knowledge by investigating how both visual and motor experience affect the perceptual mechanism that is responsible for the configural processing of actions. In their study, expert ballet dancers were matched with non-expert ballet dancers…

persistence of gradually dynamical rivalrous perceptions when stimuli are switched powerfully suggests that binocular rivalry occurs as a consequence of alternate stimulus representations compete within the visual pathway. Binocular rivalry thus affords an opportunity to study how the visual system decides what people see even when both eyes see the almost same thing (23). However, a general, non-selective reduction in affectability during the suppression of a stimulus is not selective to…

Music has many effects on the brain. The brain’s ability to absorb and make sense of music is very complex. Regardless of musical style, when music is listened to the brain activates the regions that are involved with movement, memory, planning, and attention- which means that sound isn’t processed with ease. Music is more meaningful to it than any other sound due to it being organized, repetitive, and harmonious. Various types of music have diverse effects on the brain: classical music…

development of heat tissue or water absorb the ultrasound energy which increase their temperature and formation of bubbles (cavitation) when dissolved gases come out of the solution due to local heat caused by ultrasound.”5 Nevertheless, there are no side effects of ultrasound recorded in studies with anyone. However Ultrasound should only be used when needed. As technology evolves Ultrasound might advance even more. Future Ultrasound might be even more fast and will be able to hold more data.…

In light of the study on the Cardiac Cycle Time Effects on Sensory Modulation, it was apparent that the point of the experiment was to investigate the differences in memory recollection subsequent to the presence of various visual stimuli. The study involved the usage of an EOG and an EDA transducer that were attached to my body accordingly before the study was initiated. The purpose of these devices were to monitor the change in muscular electrical activity around the eyes in order to keep…

Individuals with both hearing and visual loss have differing needs which makes it difficult for practitioners to properly rehabilitate them because practitioners may lack the tools to recognize dual sensory impairment. They receive very little or any cross-disciplinary training to accommodate those with DSI. Since there is very little training in dual sensory impairment, this can lead to misdiagnosis or misunderstanding. Few studies have examined the effects of dual sensory impairment on aging…

The physiological and psychological capabilities in infants versus adults are extremely different and for various reasons. The psychological and physiological difference in speech perception of adults and infants will be the main discussion in this paper. Speech perception is when language is spoken heard and understood. The level of comprehension of language is based on intellectual capacity, age, and experiences. The basics of speech start with sounds and breaking them down into…