Seventy French university students were recruited for the study and told they would be participating in a three-day experiment testing the effects of brightness of video games on visual perception.

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Argus II is intended to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to induce visual perception in blind individuals with retinitis pigmentosa and has the capacity to offer life-changing visual capabilities to those currently unable to see anything except, at best, extremely bright lights.

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"Texture perception might complement visual information in such classification tasks, " he said.

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Artists, he says, rely on our proneness to visual illusions arising out of the fact that all perception involves unconscious inference, as when a two-dimensional retinal image is translated into a three-dimensional perception.

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Antonio Criminsi of the Machine Learning and Perception group - the team which in effect invented the visual recognition system of Kinect - demonstrated how Kinect's underlying technology can be adapted for medical diagnosis.

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If language does affect colour-perception, then it is more likely to affect perceptions from the right visual field than the left.

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The right hemisphere is more involved in holistic perception and as a result it processes information by integrating it into perceptual models (visual, spatial, auditory, etc).

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