Peripheral vision is what you see beyond your direct line of sight. It helps provide a complete sense of your surroundings without moving your head. Jump to Key Takeaways. Within the eye, rods and ...

Tunnel vision refers to the loss of side vision. With tunnel vision, a person can only see what is directly in front of them. As such, their vision may appear as if they were peering down a narrow ...

Researchers have found a significant improvement in the peripheral awareness of people who played computer games specially designed around using peripheral vision. This finding opens up the ...

When you think of vision trouble, you might look at the issue head-on—literally. Determining how well you can see right in front of you is often the gauge for whether or not it’s time for a ...

From owls to butterflies to monkeys, there are many examples where the visual part of the brain has evolved to devote more resources to tasks that are particularly important for a species. Nocturnal ...

Perhaps computer vision and human vision have more in common than meets the eye? Research from MIT suggests that a certain type of robust computer-vision model perceives visual representations ...

During periods of stress, the sympathetic nervous system automatically narrows the range of perceptual inputs to emphasize central vision. This perceptual narrowing is an evolutionary skill that was ...

Picture this: You look through a peephole and stare straight ahead. You see everything above, below, and to your sides. Suddenly, the peephole gets smaller and smaller. You see everything in front of ...

New research at Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications indicates that playing computer games can improve someone’s peripheral vision. The study, published in the paper ...