Researchers have found a significant improvement in the peripheral awareness of people who played computer games specially designed around using peripheral vision. This finding opens up the ...

Peripheral vision is the ability to see through the sides or out of the corners of the eyes, which is used during most daily activities. Peripheral vision may be lost due to various reasons, typically ...

Tunnel vision refers to the loss of side vision. With tunnel vision, a person can only see what is directly in front of them. As such, their vision may appear as if they were peering down a narrow ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During periods of stress, the sympathetic nervous system automatically narrows the range of perceptual inputs to ...

The ability to distinguish objects in peripheral vision varies significantly between individuals, finds new research from UCL, Paris Descartes University and Dartmouth College, USA. For example, some ...

Glaucoma affects peripheral vision, creating blind spots in the outer edges of a person’s visual field. This can affect daily activities such as driving and walking. Glaucoma is the name for a group ...

Most of us have at some point felt the sensation that someone is staring at us in our peripheral vision. A quick glance is all it takes to confirm or deny this sensation. Sometimes there really is a ...