This App Trains You to See Farther
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This App Trains You to See Farther
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Did you read the article?
> Despite its name, UltimEyes has little to do with improving the physical eye or eye muscles. Rather, the app works by exploiting recent insights into when and how the adult brain can be fundamentally rewired—a concept known as neuroplasticity.
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#4The article author and also the researcher showed up on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1y9m6w/a_neuroscien...
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#5Open source javascript clone. https://rawgithub.com/Fordi/eyegame/master/eyes.html
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But you can get better at reading by practicing reading. No physical changes to the eye are necessary.
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#7Eyes feel blurry after playing this game. Uncomfortable. Want to go to bed.
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#8The image that they show reminds me of the way that the 2D discrete cosine transform works.
http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/imgs/512/312/2680596/2680596_pone.0...
It looks similar to this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Dctjpeg....
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We're talking about the brain. The brain can change itself from the inside just by willing it. Much more can you change the brain using purposefully designed external stimuli.
The brain is like a FPGA, part of which implements a FPGA programmer.
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#10Open source javascript clone. https://rawgithub.com/Fordi/eyegame/master/eyes.html
Heh, nice. Just a little feedback - I can select all purposely or by accident and it highlights the dots. Also, in FF on Win 7, the 'press f11' prompt won't go away. Thanks for the opportunity to get an idea of what this is about, though.