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.
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.
This demonstrates that a short sensorimotor training challenging proprioception can a) effectively enhance proprioceptive acuity and b) improve the accuracy of untrained movement.
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.
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.
Among those, he says, are greater mental acuity, enhanced creativity and increased job productivity.
Those researchers are combining tDCS with training in fitness, meditation, and nutrition to enhance the mental acuity and judgment of 315 test subjects.
My hearing remained completely undistorted, even enhanced in its acuity, but I was overcome by strange vestibular hallucinations, like a force emanating from the whorls of the conch still on my hand.
