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Geordi La Forge’s VISOR and the promise of prosthetic vision
September 29, 2023
Connecting a 24th-century prosthetic to our 21st-century understanding of human vision.
The Predator: A vision science perspective
September 7, 2023
There is a real argument to be made that Predator is perfect. I don’t mean that it’s objectively a good movie (though it is) but that I can’t imagine how or...
Missing the obvious over the board because of visual crowding
September 7, 2023
A bottleneck in visual processing may be (part of) why keeping track of everything on the chess board is so hard
How many kinds of chess ability are there?
September 7, 2023
I play Rapid, Blitz, and Bullet chess equally poorly, but do I use different cognitive mechanisms for them?
Superman, X-rays, and Extramission theories of vision.
September 7, 2023
The Man of Steel's visual capabilities make contact with folk theories of vision.
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