Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average, sensitivity to light at night is reduced by more than one-third after a day at the beach without sunglasses; in some cases it is reduced by nine-tenths. The loss in sensitivity cuts down night vision in a "logarithmic proportion": the average driver loses 13% of his visual acuity, the extreme case loses...
...Bright light bleaches the visual purple, a pigment in the retina which is needed for vision in dim light. Overexposure slows the retina's power to restore the purple when needed...
Horrible or not, said Bacon, his pictures were not supposed to mean a thing. "They are just an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual . . . Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas...
...requirement that all undergraduates do a specified amount of reading from a list each summer for a fall examination has been termed a success, as has the substitution of visual techniques for texts and use of source documents in teaching of history...
...group of electrical contacts touching the surface of the subject's brain, says Dr. Krieg, might enable him to read. A pattern of such impulses coming through the electrodes of the apparatus might be controlled to appear as words, moving across the blind man's visual consciousness like the letters of an advertising sign...