Hacker News with Generative AI: Vision

REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex (2021) (nlm.nih.gov)
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be taken over by its neighbors.

Sleep, Neuroscience, Brain Activity, Vision, Visual Cortex

30 points by mhb 21 days ago | 2 comments

'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain (news.yale.edu)
Too much stuff in the periphery of our vision can make it difficult to identify what we’re seeing. Yale researchers now know how that clutter affects the brain.

Neuroscience, Vision, Psychology, Perception

230 points by gnabgib 87 days ago | 102 comments

Meta Llama 3 vision multimodal models – how to use them and what they can do (theregister.com)
Meta has been influential in driving the development of open language models with its Llama family, but up until now, the only way to interact with them has been through text.

Meta, Generative AI, Vision, Multimodal

10 points by rntn 104 days ago | 1 comments

Hallucinations from flickering lights: What happens in our brain? (medicalxpress.com)
A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity.

Neuroscience, Vision, Hallucinations, Brain Activity

8 points by PaulHoule 118 days ago | 1 comments

Gene Therapy Restores Vision (neurosciencenews.com)
After the treatment, one patient saw her first star. Another saw snowflakes for the first time. Other patients were newly able to navigate outside of the home or to read the labels on their child’s Halloween candy.

Gene Therapy, Medical Research, Vision, Biology

3 points by bookofjoe 133 days ago | 0 comments

Health, Medicine, Side Effects, Vision

13 points by ggm 194 days ago | 4 comments

Blue field entoptic phenomenon (wikipedia.org)

Optical Illusions, Biology, Vision

117 points by thunderbong 239 days ago | 38 comments

Covid-19 May Damage Vision (neurosciencenews.com)

Covid-19, Health, Vision, Neuroscience

13 points by amichail 247 days ago | 1 comments

Outdoor time is good for kids' eyesight (text.npr.org)

Health, Children, Vision, Research

41 points by jimmytucson 250 days ago | 29 comments

Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood (theconversation.com)

Nearsightedness, Health, Childhood, Vision

228 points by pseudolus 268 days ago | 172 comments

Vision can predict dementia 12 years before diagnosis, study finds (sciencealert.com)