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Vision News

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  USC Scientists Keep Their Eyes on Peripheral Vision

  January 19, 2012

  Two USC scientists are bringing peripheral vision into focus, showing that the way the brain sharpens its attention while the eyes are in motion leads to false assumptions about how objects should look. The eye’s… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: bosco tjan, eyes, neurosciences, paper, psychology, publication, social sciences, vision

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  Breaking Curveball Too Good to Be True

  October 15, 2010

  Curveballs curve and fastballs go really fast, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball "break" or a fastball "rise." Led by Arthur Shapiro of American University and Zhong-Lin Lu of USC College, the… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: baseball, biomedical engineering, eye, natural sciences, neuroscience, psychology, publication, study, vision, zhong-lin lu

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  Seeing Straight

  June 1, 2008

  Evidence from laboratory studies and a pilot clinical trial confirms the promise of a simple treatment for amblyopia, or “lazy eye,” according to researchers from the United States and China. The treatment —… more>

  tags: lazy eye, treatment, vision

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  The Eyes Have It

  November 1, 2007

  An interdisciplinary team of biomedical researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, USC College and the Keck School of Medicine of USC has received a $6 million Bioengineering Research Partnership grant from the… more>

  tags: eyes, vision, visual aids

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  Adults With Lazy Eye Can Improve

  December 20, 2005

  New treatment offers promise for previously untreatable amblyopia cases. Seven subjects in a recent exercise improved their overall visual acuity as much as 216 percent, researchers say. By Carl Marziali Young adults… more>

  categories: research

  tags: lazy eye, treatment, vision