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Training visual processes

Cognitive scientist Barbara Dosher receives more than $1 million to study how to optimize visual processing

Barbara Dosher, UCI Distinguished Professor of cognitive sciences, has received a $1.14 million renewal grant from the National Eye Institute - part of the National Institutes of Health - to study how human perceptual learning operates and whether training can help overcome limitations in order to improve performance. "Perceptual training has demonstrated a remarkable ability to enhance perception and perceptual judgments that are used in many of our day to day activities from the most basic of tasks such as seeing and listening to the more complex tasks and decisions based on perceptual inputs," Dosher says. "Only a small fraction of the complex, visual information in the world can be fully processed for recognition and action," she says. "The objective of the current research is to develop theoretical principles and training methods that will improve the amount and the generality of the benefits of visual training." Her long-term goal is to apply the improved methods of training tested in standard populations to improve training used in clinical applications, rehabilitation and the development of perceptual expertise.

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Jumpstart celebrates its 10th annual national reading day

"Not Norman" artist does live illustration of book for Santa Ana preschoolers

Speaking from experience

Igor Bobic, UCI poli sci honors alumnus '10 and current associate politics editor at The Huffington Post, gives personal perspective on refugee debate

Mexican immigration to U.S. reverses

As more Mexicans leave the U.S. than arrive, largest wave of immigration in modern American history ends, causing major labor concerns in the U.S., says DeSipio, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal

Special Master offers alternative Virginia congressional maps

Poli sci prof Bernie Grofman proposes new boundaries for Virginia's first-fourth congressional districts that give African-American voters "a realistic opportunity to elect candidates of choice"

Talking philosophy: War and peace

Simone Chambers, political science professor, on the nature, the rules, and the challenges of war and peace, yesterday and today - courtesy of CBC Radio

UCI researchers to develop non-invasive, cheaper and more accurate method for mapping brain regions related to epileptic seizures, autism

Project utilizes new MEG technology based on Sagnac interferometer developed by UCI physicist

Researchers expand study on area of brain causing speech deficits in stroke victims

Renewed funding from NIH brings total to $12.1 million

Painting a more accurate picture of scientific findings

Cognitive scientist Vandekerckhove receives NSF grant to develop tool that will make the research process more accurate

Bold new brain research in neuroengineering, brain-inspired design, and individuality

NSF awards $13.1 million for 16 new studies, including a UCI-Ohio State project aimed at understanding individual differences in cognitive performance