Sentences with phrase «visual performance of»

A More Natural Way of Seeing: Visual Performance of Three Presbyopia Correcting Intraocular Lenses

In spite of (or perhaps because of) this, the moment I peeked behind the black curtain to enter I was instantly uncomfortable with the decontextualized visual performance of minstrelsy in a room where I couldn't see anyone else or their reactions.

Challenge each group to create a multimedia presentation or visual performance of their own to explain the overarching concept described, based on specific information in their assigned text.

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The Yerkes - Dodson curve (named for the Harvard psychologists who first proposed that moderate levels of arousal enhance performance) is taught in psychology, and is a helpful visual to help grasp this concept.

Perhaps the greatest collaboration from the minds of director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (so far), this unique love story is powerfully told through amazing performances and incredible sleight - of - hand visuals.

Fluorescent lights — used in an estimated 98 percent of commercial buildings — are particularly problematic because of «substropic flicker» which is invisible but causes all sorts of problems including fatigue, impaired visual task performance, distraction, headaches, and eye strain.

With unparallelled, built - in visual reporting that reveals priceless information about your performance by - the - minute, you can take control of your marketing campaign to achieve the highest return possible.

Visual: Cursor moves to click an example of a performance web page displaying portfolio balances and returns over a time graph.

Instead, he theorizes: «The performance of Papitou's nudity is a part of what Malek Alloula names as the colonial «anthology of breasts,» a tradition in Orientalist visual culture in which the bust of the «colonial harem» is displayed in one of three forms.»

Thus males, whose performance is unpredictable and who are in any case secondary attractions for the heterosexual audience of the films, earn far less money than female porn stars, whose appeal is largely visual and whose standard of performance can be counted on.

By collecting a constant stream of visual and numerical information, any recurring foreign bodies are easier to identify, ensuring gold - standard performance.

Lycored extracts ingredients to enhance the visual, taste, organoleptic and nutritional performance of food and drinks.

After entering through a giant windmill inspired by the Nolet Distillery's signature one in Schiedam, Holland, where Ketel One Vodka is made, guests enjoyed a multisensory journey that took them on a storytelling tour of the Ketel One Vodka heritage with bespoke cocktails, signature dishes, musical performances, visual art displays and the fine craftsmanship of Ketel One Vodka.

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The indoor facilities, all of which are connected, feature a historical main building entrance, a large gymnasium, a performance space, a modern library center, a fiber arts studio, three laboratories, a woodshop, music and practice rooms, a cafeteria and a visual arts studio.

Following the performance, psychiatrist and author Richard Restak, and Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez - Conde, scientists who study various aspects of visual, sensory and cognitive neuroscience, discussed the science underlying what the audience had just experienced.

8 — 23 Neuroscience meets performance art in «Waves of Mu,» a blend of visual art, installations and performances by artist Amy Caron.

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals and the strong performances of its cast.

The recruitment of visual areas for auditory tasks is sometimes thought to underlie the better performance in processing inputs from other senses observed in congenitally blind people.

ImPACT ® demonstrated the strongest performance for detecting cognitive impairment because it measured the types of tasks that this meta - analysis analyzed as being most effective in detecting such post-concussion issues: processing speed, verbal memory, visual memory and recall.

«Despite the fact that the literature describes only correlation between verbal memory tests and hippocampal cell densities in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis, we found a correlation between right hippocampal cell densities and performance on visual memory tests, including both immediate and delayed recall,» says authors Sandra Mara Comper and Anaclara Prada Jardim, students in the laboratory of Dr. Elza Marcia Yacubian at the Federal University of São Paulo.

He's now a Ph.D. student at the University of Exeter in the School of Sport and Health Sciences, where his research focuses on visual attention and performance.

Just like today, specific breeds were preferred by people not only because of their riding performance but also their visual appearance and attractiveness.

In the lab, the researchers used blue and yellow artificial flowers to test the visual learning performance of 85 individual foraging bumblebees from five colonies.

This view of the brain started to change about 15 years ago, when Israeli neurobiologist Dov Sagi discovered that with intensive training in specific visual tasks, such as target orientation (the ability to look at a dot on the wall, look away, then look back at the dot's exact spot), people much older than 12 months could improve their performance in those tasks.

Such superhuman performance by a computer is an extremely rare accomplishment in any field of audio or visual perception.

Even though he has more than a dozen films to his credit, including work on the 2003 film version of The Hulk that garnered him nominations for two awards from the Visual Effects Society, Benza says it was a challenge to create highly athletic performances from bulky, animated characters that appeared to be the size of small buildings and weigh several tons.

At the end of the study, the participants in the intervention group displayed significant improvements in their overall cognitive performance as well as in specific domains, such as cognitive speed, visual learning, and memory.

Researchers have been taking advantage of graphical processing units (GPUs), which are small chips designed for high performance in processing the huge amount of visual content needed for video games.

Results show that in comparison to women who experienced menopause after the age of 50, those with a premature menopause had a more than 40 % increased risk of poor performance on tasks assessing verbal fluency and visual memory and was associated with a 35 % increased risk of decline in psychomotor speed (coordination between the brain and the muscles that brings about movement) and overall cognitive function over 7 years.

Also, given my earlier analysis of arousal phenotypes of DopR mutants, we have tested their performance in the visual arena, and these mutant animals are indeed compromised in their ability to perform visual tasks.

History of these syndromes was also associated with poor performance on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT), which may be caused by the need for more time to process the visual stimuli, thus limiting the time available for the cognitive task of linking the numerals.»

«Performance appeared to be influenced by the time - limited nature of the task, suggesting that participants with a history of neuro - ophthalmic syndromes have residual delays in visual processing speed.

Now we will team up to ask in broader terms how it works from end to end, and how it contributes to the performance of complex visual tasks.

There is increasing recognition that visual performance is impaired in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, no consensus exists as to the mechanisms underlying this visual dysfunction, in particular regarding the timing, nature, and extent of retinal versus cortical pathology.

Secondary outcomes included subjective characterization of visual deficit and functional surveys that assessed performance on activities of daily living.

Visual feedback was displayed on the centre of the screen (1 s) to motivate performance (see Data analysis) and the next trial ensued.

Visual acuity tests showed that the performance of animals receiving iPS - RPE transplants was significantly better than sham - operated and control animals.

This study tested for a positive effect of donepezil (0.3 and 0.6 mg / kg, IP, 1 hour pretreatment time, start of dosing 1 week prior to swim test) on the performance of R6 / 2 mice in a simple visual discrimination task, the two - choice swim test.

[15] One study has shown that consumption of dark chocolate improved performance on cognitive tests which included the abstract reasoning test, the scanning and tracking test, the working memory test, the visual - spatial memory test, and the organization test.

Dehydration degraded specific aspects of cognitive performance: errors increased on visual vigilance (P = 0 · 048) and visual working memory response latency slowed (P = 0 · 021).

Walk hand - in - hand from one gallery to the next and enjoy the best of visual arts, contemporary music and innovative performance art.

Manifesto's visual inventiveness and Blanchett's multifarious performances make the movie consistently engrossing, even when the relationship between Blanchett's character and the words coming out of her mouth — or, more often in this version, spoken by her in voiceover — seem purely arbitrary.

Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

Filled with religious and deep - meaning life message, visual treat, touching performance and powerful score make The Tree of Life undeniably

What's The Deal: A smart send - up of the Superman myth and the age - old precept of good vs. evil, Megamind is a refreshingly solid animated tale that soars on vibrant visuals, energetic vocal performances and clever writing.

Filled with religious and deep - meaning life message, visual treat, touching performance and powerful score make The Tree of Life undeniably Terrence Malick's masterpiece.

Critics Consensus: Flawed but eminently watchable, Joel Schumacher's teen vampire thriller blends horror, humor, and plenty of visual style with standout performances from a cast full of young 1980s stars.

This is a big movie, about big emotions and ideas, which Rees evokes and explores through an extraordinarily rich tapestry of atmosphere, physical setting, visual detail and sensitive, subtle performances.

Critic Consensus: Flawed but eminently watchable, Joel Schumacher's teen vampire thriller blends horror, humor, and plenty of visual style with standout performances from a cast full of young 1980s stars.