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  2. Microsaccade - Wikipedia

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    Microsaccades are a kind of fixational eye movement.They are small, jerk-like, involuntary eye movements, similar to miniature versions of voluntary saccades.They typically occur during prolonged visual fixation (of at least several seconds), not only in humans, but also in animals with foveal vision (primates, cats, dogs etc.).

  3. Perception of infrasound - Wikipedia

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    In this test, an anesthetized bird is presented with a single sound or a sequence of sounds, followed by an electric shock. The bird's heart-rate will increase in anticipation of a shock. Therefore, a measure of the heart-rate can determine whether the bird is able to distinguish between stimuli that would be followed by a shock from stimuli ...

  4. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Another way in which the shadows of blood vessels may be seen is by holding a bright light against the eyelid at the corner of the eye. The light penetrates the eye and casts a shadow on the blood vessels as described previously. The light must be jiggled to defeat adaptation.

  5. Haidinger's brush - Wikipedia

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    One such apparatus utilises a rotating polarised plate backlit with a bright white light. Wearing blue spectacles (to enhance the Haidinger's brush image) and an occluder over the other eye, the user will hopefully notice the Haidinger's brush where their macula correlates with their visual field. The goal of the training is for the user to ...

  6. Magnetoreception - Wikipedia

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    Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field. Animals with this sense include some arthropods , molluscs , and vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals).

  7. Shock wave - Wikipedia

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    In fact, correct capturing and detection of shock waves are important since shock waves have the following influences: (1) causing loss of total pressure, which may be a concern related to scramjet engine performance, (2) providing lift for wave-rider configuration, as the oblique shock wave at lower surface of the vehicle can produce high ...

  8. Stroboscopic effect - Wikipedia

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    This means that an average observer will be able to detect the artefact with a probability of 50%. If the value of the visibility measure is above unity, the effect has a probability of detection of more than 50%. If the value of the visibility measure is smaller than unity, the probability of detection is less than 50%.

  9. Microwave auditory effect - Wikipedia

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    However, it's been argued that despite waves the microwave auditory effect only constituting a rapid 10 −6 °C rise in temperature, for threshold peaks on each pulse, that, at the least, a strong peak of around 1400 kW/cm² (1.4 billion mW/cm²) would certainly be harmful due to the resulting pressure wave.