Sentence examples for enhanced acuity from inspiring English sources

For example, depending on the type of training, enhanced acuity may be orientation specific, such that people who have been extensively trained with horizontal lines may not be able to transfer their learning to tests with vertical lines and vice versa.

The hypnotic effects on perception take four forms: positive hallucinations (where the subject perceives some object not actually present in the environment); negative hallucinations (where the subject fails to perceive an object that is actually present); anesthesias (reduction in acuity in some sensory modality), and hyperesthesia (enhanced acuity).

To ensure that the enhanced acuity of a subject under the complex stimulus condition was not due simply to the increased amplitude that resulted from adding vibration to a flutter stimulus (which resulted in a stimulus amplitude of 120 μm), the two-point limen was tracked on the attended hand at 25 Hz flutter of varying amplitudes.

Overall, the contrasting evolutionary signatures in the visual opsins between mammals and birds are consistent with their contrasting photic needs in that scotopic-adapted animals need to maximize the amount of light collected, while photopic-adapted animals require enhanced visual acuity.

This demonstrates that a short sensorimotor training challenging proprioception can a) effectively enhance proprioceptive acuity and b) improve the accuracy of untrained movement.

It is hypothesized that the application of adhesive tape prevents further sprains by enhancing proprioceptive acuity via the activation of the skin proprioceptive receptors of the surrounding area.

For instance, viewing the body part that is touched (without viewing the touching object) enhances tactile acuity and accuracy (Tipper et al., 1998; Kennett et al., 2001).

(See Press et al. 2004, Kennett et al. 2001 and Fotopoulou et al. 2009 for discussion of cases in which visual experience enhances tactile acuity and kinesthetic experience generally).

Surgery may be performed to correct the AHP and strabismus and might enhance visual acuity as well.

Nilsson and Pelger's evolutionary sequence of eye-organizations that increasingly enhance visual acuity constitutes a classic example of such a sequence (ibid).. Given their proximate focus, neither the currently unknown adaptive conditions under which these mechanisms functioned, nor the particular animal in which they were embedded need to be addressed by such explanations.

Among those, he says, are greater mental acuity, enhanced creativity and increased job productivity.