{"id":5022,"date":"2016-11-04T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:42:01","slug":"eyesight-sharpened-in-the-blink-of-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/eyesight-sharpened-in-the-blink-of-an-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyesight sharpened in the blink of an eye <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5051\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/magnifying-glass-975633_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"magnifying-glass\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/magnifying-glass-975633_960_720.jpg 960w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/magnifying-glass-975633_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next time you reach for your reading glasses, try this weird trick instead: staring at a flickering display. Researchers at Western University found that staring at a series of flickering images can help temporarily sharpen vision. This is due to the decreased activity from the visual pathway responsible for carrying less detailed visual cues from the eyes to the brain. Rapidly blinking images tire out the coarse-grained pathway in favour of another one, which is responsible for delivering more detailed information. Lead author Derek Arnold explains that reducing the input from the coarse-grained pathway effectively &#8216;de-blurs&#8217; the image. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Derek H. Arnold, Jeremy D. Williams, Natasha E. Phipps, and Melvyn A. Goodale<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Derek H. Arnold, Perception Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melvyn A. Goodale,\u00a0Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, ON N6A 5B8, Canada<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2016\/10\/12\/1609330113.abstract#aff-1\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>PNAS<\/em> on October 17, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you reach for your reading glasses, try this weird trick instead: staring at a flickering display. Researchers at Western University found that staring at a series of flickering images can help temporarily sharpen vision. This is due to the decreased activity from the visual pathway responsible for carrying less detailed visual cues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2691,1678,2589,2692],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-eyesight","tag-neuroscience","tag-vision","tag-visual-pathway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/magnifying-glass-975633_960_720.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1j0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}