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Chapter 10. Vision: From Eye to Brain
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By ELEANOR LEW I was watching Diane Sawyer on the evening news, wondering how she manages year after year to look so young, when suddenly her face disappeared. Now you see. Now you don't. One second. That's all it took. A dense black inkblot shaped like a map of England and southern Norway suddenly blocked my view of Diane so that all I could see was her blond hair and shoulders. At first, I thought it was the television set. Changing channels didn't bring her face back, nor did rubbing my eyes. "It's permanent vision loss," my ophthalmologist said. "Your optic nerve and retina buckled." He drew a picture of the inside of my right eye, the affected one, and explained that my degenerative myopia, an inherited condition that is far less common than ordinary nearsightedness but still a leading cause of blindness worldwide, had caused my eyeball to elongate excessively. It looked like a house whose walls had been stretched so thin that the roof caved. The doctor didn't say much else, didn't make any recommendations for physical or occupational therapy, didn't tell me to call him if I noticed any changes. I left his office shaken. "What if it happens in my other eye? What if…?" In the weeks that followed, I began to notice bizarre changes in my right eye. Frequent flashing lights, like a dying neon tube, sometimes flickering color or bright white light, so intense I swore I could hear them buzz. I observed my peripheral vision diminishing. England and Norway morphed into a large, bushy oak tree with a short and wide trunk. At a park, I came upon children playing. When I covered my good eye with my hand, I could see only a sliver of sky, and legs and shoes of children running in and out of the tree. I wrote off the psychedelic changes to the "buckling" and didn't bother to call my ophthalmologist. But I was scared and needed help. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19982 - Posted: 08.22.2014
by Bethany Brookshire For most of us, where our birthday falls in the year doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. A July baby doesn't make more mistakes than a Christmas kid — at least, not because of their birthdays. But for neurons, birth date plays an important role in how these cells find their connections in the brain, a new study finds. Nerve cells that form early in development will make lots of connections — and lots of mistakes. Neurons formed later are much more precise in their targeting. The findings are an important clue to help scientists understand how the brain wires itself during development. And with more information on how the brain forms its network, scientists might begin to see what happens when that network is injured or malformed. Many, many brain cells are born as the brain develops. Each one has to reach out and make connections, sometimes to other cells around them and sometimes to other regions of the brain. To do this, these nerve cells send out axons, long, incredibly thin projections that reach out to other regions. How mammalian axons end up at their final destination in the growing brain remains a mystery. To find out how developing brains get wired up, Jessica Osterhout and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego and colleagues started in the eye. They looked at retinal ganglion cells, neurons that connect the brain and the eye. "It's easy to access," explains Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at UC San Diego and an author on the paper. "Your retina is basically part of the central nervous system that got squeezed into your eye during development." Retinal ganglion cells all have the same function: To convey visual information from the eyes to the brain. But they are not all the same. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Vision
Link ID: 19930 - Posted: 08.09.2014
By Emily Underwood Old age may make us wiser, but it rarely makes us quicker. In addition to slowing down physically, most people lose points on intelligence tests as they enter their golden years. Now, new research suggests the loss of certain types of cognitive skills with age may stem from problems with basic sensory tasks, such as making quick judgments based on visual information. Although there's no clear causal link between the two types of thinking yet, the new work could provide a simple, affordable way to track mental decline in senior citizens, scientists say. Since the 1970s, researchers who study intelligence have hypothesized that smartness, as measured on standard IQ tests, may hinge on the ability to quickly and efficiently sample sensory information from the environment, says Stuart Ritchie, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Today it's well known that people who score high on such tests do, indeed, tend to process such information more quickly than those who do poorly, but it's not clear how these measures change with age, Ritchie says. Studying older people over time can be challenging given their uncertain health, but Ritchie and his colleagues had an unusual resource in the Lothian Birth Cohort, a group of people born in 1936 whose mental function has been periodically tested by the Scottish government since 1947—their first IQ test was at age 11. After recruiting more than 600 cohort members for their study, Ritchie and colleagues tracked their scores on a simple visual task three times over 10 years, repeating the test at the mean ages of 70, 73, and 76. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Intelligence; Vision
Link ID: 19917 - Posted: 08.05.2014
|By Ingrid Wickelgren One important function of your inner ear is stabilizing your vision when your head is turning. When your head turns one way, your vestibular system moves your eyes in the opposite direction so that what you are looking at remains stable. To see for yourself how your inner ears make this adjustment, called the vestibulo-ocular reflex, hold your thumb upright at arm's length. Shake your head back and forth about twice per second while looking at your thumb. See that your thumb remains in focus. Now create the same relative motion by swinging your arm back and forth about five inches at the same speed. Notice that your thumb is blurry. To see an object clearly, the image must remain stationary on your retina. When your head turns, your vestibular system very rapidly moves your eyes in the opposite direction to create this stability. When the thumb moves, your visual system similarly directs the eyes to follow, but the movement is too slow to track a fast-moving object, causing blur. © 2014 Scientific American
By Phil Plait From the twisted mind of brusspup comes another brain-hurting illusion. This one is really, really convincing, so tell me: When you look at this video, you're seeing a circle of eight dots rotating as it spins around inside a bigger circle, right? No, you're not. As brusspup shows, each individual white dot is moving in a straight line! The trick here is two-fold: One is that the dots aren't moving at constant velocity (you can see that in the video at the 0:44 mark), and that combined their motion mimics what we'd see if a smaller circle is rolling around inside a big one. Try as I may, when I look at this video I can't make my brain see the dots moving linearly; it looks like a circle rolling. If I focus on one of the dots I can see it moving back and forth along a line, but the others still look like the rim of a circle rolling around. For most illusions there's a moment when your brain can see what's going on and the illusion shatters, but not with this one. It's maddening. When I was a kid, Spirograph was a very popular "game." It wasn't really a game, but a set of clear plastic disks with gear teeth around them (or rings with teeth on the inside). They had holes in them; you'd pin a ring down on a piece of paper, then take another disk, place it inside the ring, put your pencil tip in a hole, and roll the inner disk around inside the outer ring. The results were really lovely and graceful interlocking and overlapping curves. If you're a lot younger than me and missed this craze, here's a video that'll help you picture it: © 2014 The Slate Group LLC.
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Link ID: 19874 - Posted: 07.24.2014
By Sid Perkins Forget the phrase "blind as a bat." New experiments suggest that members of one species of these furry flyers—Myotis myotis, the greater mouse-eared bat—can do something no other mammal is known to do: They detect and use polarized light to calibrate their long-distance navigation. Previous research hinted that these bats reset their magnetic compass each night based on cues visible at sunset, but the particular cue or cues hadn't been identified. In the new study, researchers placed bats in boxes in which the polarization of light could be controlled and shifted. After letting the bats experience sundown at a site near their typical roost, the team waited until after midnight (when polarized light was no longer visible in the sky), transported the animals to two sites between 20 and 25 kilometers from the roost, strapped radio tracking devices to them, and then released them. In general, bats whose polarization wasn't shifted took off for home in the proper direction. But those that had seen polarization shifted 90° at sunset headed off in directions that, on average, pointed 90° away from the true bearing of home, the researchers report online today in Nature Communications. It's not clear how the bats discern the polarized light, but it may be related to the type or alignment of light-detecting pigments in their retinas, the team suggests. The bats may have evolved to reset their navigation system using polarized light because that cue persists long after sunset and is available even when skies are cloudy. Besides these bats (and it's not known whether other species of bat can do this, too), researchers have found that certain insects, birds, reptiles, and amphibians can navigate using polarized light. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 19870 - Posted: 07.23.2014
Associated Press Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired, giving them affordable and immediate access to printed words. The so-called FingerReader, a prototype produced by a 3-D printer, fits like a ring on the user's finger, equipped with a small camera that scans text. A synthesized voice reads words aloud, quickly translating books, restaurant menus and other needed materials for daily living, especially away from home or office. Reading is as easy as pointing the finger at text. Special software tracks the finger movement, identifies words and processes the information. The device has vibration motors that alert readers when they stray from the script, said Roy Shilkrot, who is developing the device at the MIT Media Lab. For Jerry Berrier, 62, who was born blind, the promise of the FingerReader is its portability and offer of real-time functionality at school, a doctor's office and restaurants. "When I go to the doctor's office, there may be forms that I want to read before I sign them," Berrier said. He said there are other optical character recognition devices on the market for those with vision impairments, but none that he knows of that will read in real time. Berrier manages training and evaluation for a federal program that distributes technology to low-income people in Massachusetts and Rhode Island who have lost their sight and hearing. He works from the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass. Developing the gizmo has taken three years of software coding, experimenting with various designs and working on feedback from a test group of visually impaired people. Much work remains before it is ready for the market, Shilkrot said, including making it work on cell phones. © 2014 Hearst Communications, Inc.
Keyword: Vision; Robotics
Link ID: 19811 - Posted: 07.10.2014
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Can too much studying ruin your eyesight? Maybe. A German study has found that the more education a person has, the greater the likelihood that he will be nearsighted. The researchers did ophthalmological and physical examinations on 4,685 people ages 35 to 74. About 38 percent were nearsighted. But of those who graduated after 13 years in the three-tiered German secondary school system, about 60.3 percent were nearsighted, compared with 41.6 percent of those who graduated after 10 years, 27.2 percent of those who graduated after nine years and 26.9 percent of those who never graduated. The percentage of myopic people was also higher among university graduates than among graduates of vocational schools or those who had no professional training at all. The study was published online in Ophthalmology. The association remained after adjusting for age, gender and many known myopia-associated variations in DNA sequences. "The effect on myopia of the genetic variations is much less than the effect of education," said the lead author, Dr. Alireza Mirshahi, an ophthalmologist at the University Medical Center in Mainz. "We used to think that myopia was predetermined by genetics. This is one proof that environmental factors have a much higher effect than we thought." © 2014 The New York Times Company
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Link ID: 19805 - Posted: 07.09.2014
Check out the winner of the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Created by psychologists at the University of Nevada, Reno, this optical illusion starts with an image of a circle surrounded by other circles. As the video begins and the exterior circles grow and shrink, it looks like the center circle is changing size, too—but it isn't. Dubbed "The Dynamic Ebbinghaus," the trick is a spinoff of the original Ebbinghaus mirage created in the 1800s.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19800 - Posted: 07.08.2014
Hassan DuRant The colorful little guy pictured above puts the eyes of every other animal to shame. Whereas humans receive color information via three color receptors in our eyes, mantis shrimp (Neogonodactylus oerstedii) have 12. Six of these differentiate five discrete wavelengths of ultraviolet light, researchers report online today in Current Biology. The mantis shrimp's vision is possible by making use of specially tuned, UV-specific optical filters in its color-detecting cone cells. The optical filters are made of mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs), a substance commonly found in the skin or exoskeleton of marine organisms. Often referred to as nature's sunscreens, MAAs are usually employed to protect an organism from DNA-damaging UV rays; however, the mantis shrimp has incorporated them into powerful spectral tuning filters. Though the reason for the mantis shrimp's complex visual perception is poorly understood, one possibility is that the UV detection could help visualize otherwise difficult-to-see prey on coral reefs. Many organisms absorb UV light—these organisms would be easy to spot as black objects in a bright world. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19789 - Posted: 07.04.2014
Simon Makin Running helps mice to recover from a type of blindness caused by sensory deprivation early in life, researchers report. The study, published on 26 June in eLife1, also illuminates processes underlying the brain's ability to rewire itself in response to experience — a phenomenon known as plasticity, which neuroscientists believe is the basis of learning. More than 50 years ago, neurophysiologists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel cracked the 'code' used to send information from the eyes to the brain. They also showed that the visual cortex develops properly only if it receives input from both eyes early in life. If one eye is deprived of sight during this 'critical period', the result is amblyopia, or 'lazy eye', a state of near blindness. This can happen to someone born with a droopy eyelid, cataract or other defect not corrected in time. If the eye is opened in adulthood, recovery can be slow and incomplete. In 2010, neuroscientists Christopher Niell and Michael Stryker, both at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), showed that running more than doubled the response of mice's visual cortex neurons to visual stimulation2 (see 'Neuroscience: Through the eyes of a mouse'). Stryker says that it is probably more important, and taxing, to keep track of the environment when navigating it at speed, and that lower responsiveness at rest may have evolved to conserve energy in less-demanding situations. "It makes sense to put the visual system in a high-gain state when you're moving through the environment, because vision tells you about far away things, whereas touch only tells you about things that are close," he says. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Vision; Regeneration
Link ID: 19779 - Posted: 07.01.2014
by Sarah Zielinski Would you recognize a stop sign if it was a different shape, though still red and white? Probably, though there might be a bit of a delay. After all, your brain has long been trained to expect a red-and-white octagon to mean "stop." The animal and plant world also uses colorful signals. And it would make sense if a species always used the same pattern to signal the same thing — like how we can identify western black widows by the distinctive red hourglass found on the adult spiders' back. But that doesn't always happen. Even with really important signals, such as the ones that tell a predator, "Don't eat me — I'm poisonous." Consider the dyeing dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius), which is found in lowland forests of the Guianas and Brazil. The backs of the 5-centimeter-long frogs are covered with a yellow-and-black pattern, which warns of its poisonous nature. But that pattern isn't the same from frog to frog. Some are decorated with an elongated pattern; others have more complex, sometimes interrupted patterns. The difference in patterns should make it harder for predators to recognize the warning signal. So why is there such variety? Because the patterns aren't always viewed on a static frog, and the different ways that the frogs move affects how predators see the amphibians, according to a study published June 18 in Biology Letters. Bibiana Rojas of Deakin University in Geelong, Australia, and colleagues studied the frogs in a nature reserve in French Guiana from February to July 2011. They found 25 female and 14 male frogs, following each for two hours from about 2.5 meters away, where the frog wouldn't notice a scientist. As a frog moved, a researcher would follow, recording how far it went and in what direction. Each frog was then photographed. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013.
Keyword: Vision; Neurotoxins
Link ID: 19767 - Posted: 06.25.2014
By HELENE STAPINSKI A few months ago, my 10-year-old daughter, Paulina, was suffering from a bad headache right before bedtime. She went to lie down and I sat beside her, stroking her head. After a few minutes, she looked up at me and said, "Everything in the room looks really small." And I suddenly remembered: When I was young, I too would "see things far away," as I once described it to my mother — as if everything in the room were at the wrong end of a telescope. The episodes could last anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, but they eventually faded as I grew older. I asked Paulina if this was the first time she had experienced such a thing. She shook her head and said it happened every now and then. When I was a little girl, I told her, it would happen to me when I had a fever or was nervous. I told her not to worry and that it would go away on its own. Soon she fell asleep, and I ran straight to my computer. Within minutes, I discovered that there was an actual name for what turns out to be a very rare affliction — Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Episodes usually include micropsia (objects appear small) or macropsia (objects appear large). Some sufferers perceive their own body parts to be larger or smaller. For me, and Paulina, furniture a few feet away seemed small enough to fit inside a dollhouse. Dr. John Todd, a British psychiatrist, gave the disorder its name in a 1955 paper, noting that the misperceptions resemble Lewis Carroll's descriptions of what happened to Alice. It's also known as Todd's Syndrome. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is not an optical problem or a hallucination. Instead, it is most likely caused by a change in a portion of the brain, likely the parietal lobe, that processes perceptions of the environment. Some specialists consider it a type of aura, a sensory warning preceding a migraine. And the doctors confirmed that it usually goes away by adulthood. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Attention
Link ID: 19766 - Posted: 06.24.2014
By Gary Stix James DiCarlo: We all have this intuitive feel for what object recognition is. It's the ability to discriminate your face from other faces, a car from other cars, a dog from a camel, that ability we all intuitively feel. But making progress in understanding how our brains are able to accomplish that is a very challenging problem and part of the reason is that it's challenging to define what it isn't and is. We take this problem for granted because it seems effortless to us. However, a computer vision person would tell you is that this is an extremely challenging problem because each object presents an essentially infinite number of images to your retina so you essentially never see the same image of each object twice. SA: It seems like object recognition is actually one of the big problems both in neuroscience and in the computational science of machine learning? DiCarlo: That's right., not only machine learning but also in psychology or cognitive science because the objects that we see are the sources in the world of what we use to build higher cognition, things like memory and decision-making. Should I reach for this, should I avoid it? Our brains can't do what you would call higher cognition without these foundational elements that we often take for granted. SA: Maybe you can talk about what's actually happening in the brain during this process. DiCarlo: It's been known for several decades that there's a portion of the brain, the temporal lobe down the sides of our head, that, when lost or damaged in humans and non-human primates, leads to deficits of recognition. So we had clues that that's where these algorithms for object recognition are living. But just saying that part of your brain solves the problem is not really specific. It's still a very large piece of tissue. Anatomy tells us that there's a whole network of areas that exist there, and now the tools of neurophysiology and still more advanced tools allow us to go in and look more closely at the neural activity, especially in non-human primates. We can then begin to decipher the actual computations to the level that an engineer might, for instance, in order to emulate what's going on in our heads. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision; Attention
Link ID: 19754 - Posted: 06.21.2014
By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News Researchers from Oxford University say they've made a breakthrough in developing smart glasses for people with severe sight loss. The glasses enhance images of nearby people and objects on to the lenses, providing a much clearer sense of surroundings. They have allowed some people to see their guide dogs for the first time. The Royal National Institute of Blind People says they could be "incredibly important". Lyn Oliver has a progressive eye disease which means she has very limited vision. Now 70, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in her early twenties. She can spot movement but describes her sight as "smudged and splattered". Her guide dog Jess helps her find her way around - avoiding most obstacles and hazards - but can't convey other information about her surroundings. Lyn is one of nearly two million people in the UK with a sight problem which seriously affects their daily lives. Most though have at least some residual sight. Researchers at Oxford University have developed a way to enhance this - using smart glasses. They are fitted with a specially adapted 3D camera. retinitis pigmentosa Dark spots across the retina (back of the eye) correspond with the extent of vision loss in retinitis pigmentosa The images are processed by computer and projected in real-time on to the lenses - so people and objects nearby become bright and clearly defined. 'More independent' Lyn Oliver has tried some of the early prototypes, but the latest model marks a key stage in the project, offering greater clarity and detail than ever before. Dr Stephen Hicks, from the University of Oxford, who has led the project, says they are now ready to be taken from the research setting to be used in the home. BBC © 2014
Keyword: Vision; Robotics
Link ID: 19738 - Posted: 06.17.2014
By EVAN FLEISCHER In two labs some 50 miles apart in Israel, computer scientists and engineers are refining devices that employ tiny cameras as translators of sorts. For both teams, the goal is to give blind people a form of sight — or at least an experience analogous to sight. At Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, where Zeev Zalevsky is head of the electro-optics program, these efforts have taken shape in the form of a smart contact lens. The device begins with a camera mounted on a pair of glasses, and the contact lens, Dr. Zalevsky explained, is embedded with an electrode that will produce an image of what is before the camera directly on the cornea. The image would be experienced in one of two ways: If an apple is placed before the camera, it could be "seen" either as the contour of an apple or as a Braille-like shape that a trained user would recognize as a representation of an apple. Continue reading the main story Contact lens could open new vistas for the blind. Video by Reuters Yevgeny Beiderman, a graduate student who worked with Dr. Zalevsky in testing the prototype, said: "The first time, the usage of the glasses feels strange. It takes at least a few attempts to start using it." The image captured by Dr. Zalevsky's device is 110 by 110 pixels — hardly photograph-quality resolution, but Dr. Zalevsky said by email that the camera captures several images in time, and the compressed and encoded result "is enough to allow functionality to the blind person (for example: Braille contains only six points and is enough for reading.)" Dr. Zalevsky is awaiting permission from a hospital to test the electrode lens on people, so in the meantime he has conducted preliminary trials using lenses that apply air pressure to the cornea instead. He has also conducted tests in which participants identified various shapes based on electrical stimulation of the tongue, after the same sort of training that would let someone wearing his lens "see" an apple as a Braille-like pattern. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Robotics
Link ID: 19723 - Posted: 06.12.2014
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Q. Does the slit shape of a cat's pupil confer any advantages over the more rounded pupils of other animals? A. "There are significant advantages," said Dr. Richard E. Goldstein, chief medical officer of the Animal Medical Center in New York City. "A cat can quickly adjust to different lighting conditions, control the amount of light that reaches the eye and see in almost complete darkness," he said. "Moreover, the slit shape protects the sensitive retina in daylight." The slit-shaped pupil found in many nocturnal animals, including the domestic cat, presumably allows more effective control of how much light reaches the retina, in terms of both speed and completeness. "A cat has the capacity to alter the intensity of light falling on its retina 135-fold, compared to tenfold in a human, with a circular pupil," Dr. Goldstein said. "A cat's eye has a large cornea, which allows more light into the eye, and a slit pupil can dilate more than a round pupil, allowing more light to enter in dark conditions." Cats have other visual advantages as well, Dr. Goldstein said. A third eyelid, between the regular eyelids and the cornea, protects the globe and also has a gland at the bottom that produces extra tears. The eyes' location, facing forward in the front of the skull, gives cats a large area of binocular vision, providing depth perception and helping them to catch prey. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19706 - Posted: 06.07.2014
|By Christie Nicholson Conventional wisdom once had it that each brain region is responsible for a specific task. And so we have the motor cortex for handling movements, and the visual cortex, for processing sight. And scientists thought that such regions remained fixed for those tasks beyond the age of three. But within the past decade researchers have realized that some brain regions can pinch hit for other regions, for example, after a damaging stroke. And now new research finds that the visual cortex is constantly doing double duty—it has a role in processing not just sight, but sound. When we hear [siren sound], we see a siren. In the study, scientists scanned the brains of blindfolded participants as the subjects listened to three sounds: [audio of birds, audio of traffic, audio of a talking crowd.] And the scientists could tell what specific sounds the subjects were hearing just by analyzing the brain activity in the visual cortex. [Petra Vetter, Fraser W. Smith and Lars Muckli, Decoding Sound and Imagery Content in Early Visual Cortex, in Current Biology] The next step is to determine why the visual cortex is horning in on the audio action. The researchers think the additional role conferred an evolutionary advantage: having a visual system primed by sound to see the source of that sound could have given humans an extra step in the race for survival. © 2014 Scientific American
By Susana Martinez-Conde Expanding and contracting circles, mutating colors, and false image matches dominated the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest, held on May 18th in the TradeWinds Island Grand in St. Petersburg, FL. One thousand perceptual scientists joined artists and the general public to determine the TOP THREE illusion masters from a pre-selected group of TOP TEN finalists, chosen by an international committee of judges. Each winner took home a trophy designed by the acclaimed Italian sculptor Guido Moretti: the trophies are visual illusions themselves. It was the 10th annual edition of the contest, which annually draws numerous accolades from attendees as well as international media coverage. Las Vegas magician Mac King was master of ceremonies for the event, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote public awareness of neuroscience research and discovery, and sponsored by Scientific American. Each of the 10 presenters displayed and described their creations for 5 minutes, to the sounds of music and confetti cannons, in an event unlike anything else in science. Afterwards, the audience voted on their favorite illusion while Mac King performed some of his signature magic tricks for the audience. The First Prize winner of the contest, an illusion by Christopher Blair, Gideon Caplovitz and Ryan Mruczek from University of Nevada Reno, took the classical Ebbinghaus illusion, where the perceived size of a central circle varies with the size of surrounding circles, and put it on steroids by making it into an ever-changing dynamic display. Blair rhymed his 5-minute presentation Dr. Seuss-style. Second Prize went to Mark Vergeer, Stuart Anstis and Rob van Lier from the University of Leuven, UC San Diego and Radboud University Nijmegen, for showing that a single colored image can produce several different color perceptions depending on the position of black outlines over the image. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19664 - Posted: 05.28.2014
By JAMES GORMAN H. Sebastian Seung is a prophet of the connectome, the wiring diagram of the brain. In a popular book, debates and public talks he has argued that in that wiring lies each person's identity. By wiring, Dr. Seung means the connections from one brain cell to another, seen at the level of the electron microscope. For a human, that would be 85 billion brain cells, with up to 10,000 connections for each one. The amount of information in the three-dimensional representation of the whole connectome at that level of detail would equal a zettabyte, a term only recently invented when the amount of digital data accumulating in the world required new words. It equals about a trillion gigabytes, or as one calculation framed it, 75 billion 16-gigabyte iPads. He is also a realist. When he speaks publicly, he tells his audiences, "I am my connectome." But he can be brutally frank about the limitations of neuroscience. "We've failed to answer simple questions," he said. "People want to know, 'What is consciousness?' And they think that neuroscience is up to understanding that. They want us to figure out schizophrenia and we can't even figure out why this neuron responds to one direction and not the other." This mix of intoxicating ideas, and the profound difficulties of testing them, not only defines Dr. Seung's career but the current state of neuroscience itself. He is one of the stars of the field, and yet his latest achievement, in a paper published this month, is not one that will set the world on fire. He and his M.I.T. colleagues have proposed an explanation of how a nerve cell in the mouse retina — the starburst amacrine cell — detects the direction of motion. If he's right, this is significant work. But it may not be what the public expects, and what they have been led to expect, from the current push to study the brain. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Brain imaging
Link ID: 19663 - Posted: 05.26.2014


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hi henry,
sounds like a 4-6 hour SDL programming project (2-3 hours for bill).
collect a bunch of mouse clicks, and it's not too difficult to calculate
a perimeter using the coordinates, assuming you only have piecewise
straight lines and a scaling. just the good old pythagorean theorem
(except for the degenerate vertical line case).
i took graduate differential geometry with dr. thurston at UCD. one of
the things i learned (he was surprised that nobody in the class knew
this, but i don't know where we'd see it) was that you can calculate the
area of an arbitrary n sided polygon (an n-gon) using a rank n
i forget the exact details, but it shouldn't be too hard to find.
what else would you need?
there's nothing out there that does this?
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> 1. Scan an aerial photo or existing map
> 2. Mark some key points on it, connect them with lines or curves, make
> areas, etc. These might be fields or fences.
> 3. Calculate lengths and areas (for example, number of acres in a field or
> number of miles long that a fence extends).
> I don't have databases of geospacial data or GPS receiver data, so I don't
> think a heavyweight GIS system what I want. The scales are normally small so
> map projections are not a major issue. Anyway, what I want to do is so
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> (<http://packages.debian.org/testing/science/grass>) since I can do a crude
> job with pencil, ruler, and compensating polar planimiter* in not much time.
> Still, there is surely a better way. I am interested in any suggestions.
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The government is us and we are the government. The way we control our government is to build a team which is able to think, vote, act and proceed like a team.
We realize that we are small but we use the most advanced and perfect election system known. In electing 1000 members under the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, Hagenbach-Bischoff method, any name garnering 1/1001ths (or .0999%) of the total votes cast plus one vote, is elected in consecutive order. This guarantees a satisfaction level of 99.9% plus 1000 votes, and we're eager to improve on that. However, there has been no improvement on this equation since the early 1900s.
So we use the most advanced system which enables every unit to be represented and every idea to be considered. I can point you and everyone in the direction of the voting, as I did in my previous post in my comment above.
Next year, on 1/1/2013, we're launching the only mini-state parliament election planned (of 144 mini-states) – the "Nor Cal Mini-state Parliament Election of 2013″.
We still have the means to hold elections in the other 143 mini-states should we expand membership, but only Nor Cal (24 counties, ss11-1) and Central Cal (12 counties, ss11-6) have reached the threshold of 100 appointed members. We held the Central Cal mini-state parliament election in 2011 and those two mini-states (ss11-1 & ss11-6) alternate election cycles every four years (odd years only, for mini-states). National and super-state elections also alternate every four years on even years.
If we work as a team we can nominate and appoint more names.
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I've been doing this 17 consecutive years, counting the paper ballots by hand every year, and it took me many years to fully understand. So I don't expect you or anyone to suddenly understand this in five minutes. But it's actually very simple:
Two #4s beats two #5s. Get it? When you count the ballots, each name gets "tics", or numbers that add up when the ballots have been correctly marked. A #1 tic is a top ranking, and beats all other numbers. But two of any tic beats one #1 tic.
The difference this makes is that we become a pro-active force instead of disorganized reactionaries.
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This is an important aspect of the ambiance you will be creating for your self. If you have crab grass and dead plants all the wind chimes in the world won't detract from the wasteland appearance. Lucky for me only half of our yard was left for grass, so having some natural sod put in to fuse with the soil was inexpensive and made a huge difference.
How do you plan on using the yard? This question will help you be specific with your landscaping needs. In my case, I do yoga, read and paint. I invested in some shrubbery to define one corner of the yard for my yoga area and I added large pieces of driftwood to give a variety of textures and color. I used more plants and some pavers to set aside other areas for my reading nook and artist's corner.
These elements will really tie your theme together. To lend to the Zen feel I was going for, I invested in a calming water feature next to the area where I paint, and a fire pit nearest to the area I designated for lounging and reading. I also bought some Buddha statues, some decorative throw pillows, lanterns, and some bright textiles.
Why not spoil your self? I decided to get one luxury item (meaning it was something I didn't have to have but wanted). I invested in a mini fridge and had a custom housing built for it made from some of the driftwood I collected. I then had my brother Tito dig out a line for the power chord to run 12 inches under the ground to a power source on the patio. Now all I have to do is reach from my reading chair and grab a chilled can of Tab or a bottle of white wine for one.
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Chisa-Pinto Loop. If you start in Presidio it is a 250 mile run. If you ride out of Sauceda in BBRSP it is about 320.
Heading back out of the park toward Presidio.
Looking toward Presidio and Ojinaga, Mexico.
As I mentioned, at one time Presidio was a tiny trading center. Shafter, the mining town to the north was much more substantial. Back in the day, we had customs inspectors mounted on horses that would ride the border and collect taxes on the huge herds of cattle being driven into the country (import). Often these collections were cash (silver) and involved big bucks.
One agent, Townsend, was based in Presidio. When he collected customs money he had to get it to the government mailbag that was carried on the stagecoach in Shafter. Bandits knew when the stage came to Shafter and they knew that the customs agent had collected about $7K in taxes recently (a huge sum) so they planned to ambush him and steal the money.
These mounted customs agents had some courage. Townsend decided to load his horse as he normally does for a routine patrol and then leisurely strolled out of town in a different direction as if he was heading out on a routine patrol for which he would have not been carrying the money. Once he got clear, he hauled ass for Shafter and delivered the money thus saving himself a hi-jack and perhaps even his life.
The Presidio area has some of the oldest modern history around the region.
Mexican cattle sometimes wander across the river. More on that problem later on.
Heading from Presidio toward Candelaria on pavement. There are dirt paths next to the road that the border patrol drags to erase tracks so they can check for fresh footprints later on. Lots of border patrol around here.
Ruidosa. Not much here.
The very scenic and entertaining Pinto Canyon run goes from here toward Marfa.
We'll ride that from Marfa back to here later in the loop.
It looks like this at the turn off.
Not much in Ruidosa.
I hope it is front wheel drive. Half off, quite a bargain.
I would guess that the Ruidosa Cantina started to go under about the time the border tightened up a few years back. The casual rural local cross border traffic probably slowed down.
Looks like someone is slowly working on an adobe building.
Maybe a church?
Looks like adobe bricks produced on site.
Left out in the rain?
Candelaria. Not much here anymore either.
There have been some farms in the river bottoms over the years. A guy named Russell used local labor to raise grain on the bottoms and then sold it to Army forts in the area.
Back when we had border trouble after WWI, the Army used to fly air patrols along the border.
Navigation wasn't so good. Neither were airplanes. A couple of pilots burned up some bearings (after losing ther navigation bearings) and set their plane down in Mexico in this area thinking they were on the American side of the Rio Grande. Wrong river. They got captured in Mexico by a gang member named Renteria and his boys.
Renteria was a horse thief and robber that sat on a guy during the Brite Ranch raid while one of his fellow bandits cut the guy's throat with a pen knife.
San Antonio de Bravo (Mexico) across the river.
Anyway, the bandits send a message to the store keeper in Candelaria that they wanted $15,000 for the two US pilots by a certain time or they would be killed. Long story short is that the local ranchers loved the air patrol because of the protection they got so they raised the money right away. They had to do a swap for the pilots one at a time for half the money at a time using an intermediary. After the first swap, the intermediary overheard the bandits say they planned to kill them anyway so he drew down on the bandits and he and the pilot grabbed horses and rode back to the US by a different route to avoid the ambush. This saved the ranchers half their money. I guess they gave $1K to the intermediary for his work.
Once everyone was safe and sound the Army went into Mexico after Renteria and his men. Planes were used to search ahead of the troops and drop messages to guide the pursuers. A plane got shot at by Ruidosa so it turned and attacked with machine guns picking off Renteria, his white horse, and probably some of his pals. Some other bandits that surrendered to the Army, even though they weren't part of Renteria's outfit, were turned over to civilian scouts who took them into a canyon and shot them.
By the way, one pilot not related to this incident said that when he was patrolling for bandits he had a hard time distinguishing between good-guys and bad-guys when he saw groups of riders on the ground. He said one method to find out was to shoot a few rounds from his machine gun in their direction. If they rode off into the brush they were cowboys, if they shot back they were bandits.
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- Highs: Low 90s
- Precipitation: 60%
The severe thunderstorm watch is canceled, but a few showers continue to dot live doppler. Warm and muggy conditions expected overnight with temperatures only dropping into the upper 60s to middle 70s.
A few morning showers, especially west of the city, are possible, but more widespread thunderstorms are expected by tomorrow afternoon. The Storm Prediction Center has the entire region under a Slight Risk for severe storms. The primary threat are damaging winds, along with dangerous lightning.
Friday and Saturday will feature quieter weather with temperatures in the upper 80s and a stray storm in the forecast. Sunday will return the chance for more widespread afternoon storms.


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Our first guest on the Sustainable Living Program was Dr. Richard Komp, a solar energy expert visiting the area from Maine. Dr. Komp will be giving a presentation in New Port Richey for the West Pasco Habitat for Humanity on November 18. Heâll be talking about a variety of topics, from solar hot water to building your own solar electric modules, and his travels around the world to help others utilize solar energy.
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I relocated to the area site unseen and used an apartment finding service. This was one of the only locations with availability. For the most part, it was a good place to live. There have been issues, but I think that… Full Review ▶
Having recently accepted a research position at UT, I have been living at Edge Creek for over a month now. Edge Creek has easy access to Mopac and Parmer Ln and is conveniently located within a mile from practically all you… Full Review ▶
I rented from Edge Creek for 6 months. Maintenence was at my apartment every week to fix or check something. And Honestly, I could write a book on how rude and inconsiderate the office manager is. I was pregnant and my… Full Review ▶
My boyfriend and I have been living here for almost 5 months. When we moved in here the refrigerator door didn't close all the way, the screen door was torn, the window screens we're torn, and our electrical phone outlets didn't… Full Review ▶
I lived at Edge Creek Apartments for 1 yr(july 2011- june 2012), and it wasnt half bad for the price you pay.I loved the bus,used it often to get where i needed to go.Pool was always closed,I use the pool once… Full Review ▶
I've lived at Edgecreek for about 7 months. At first I was a little worried about living here, especially after reading so many bad reviews. But knowing what to expect actually has made my living experience here a lot more pleasant.… Full Review ▶
I purchased a condo nearly 8 months ago. I decided to rent since there was a lease on my unit until the end of this month. (may) I have to say, the only prob I have had as far as management… Full Review ▶
Okay here are my observations: 1. Management is okay and they appear to do an okay job, but they could really work on their communication skills. E.g., failing to tell me when they've entered my unit without my foreknowledge and leaving… Full Review ▶
I moved into this place during the summer. The first thing I noticed was my a/c was very poorly circulated. The first few months I lived here my electric bill was almost $200 dollars. Now that it is winter time, my… Full Review ▶
Maintainance doesn't speak English and never really fix anything correctly. Our Ice Machine has been leaking all over the kitchen for the past 6 months and we have called them to fix it over a dozen times. Our sink has very… Full Review ▶
The apartment I rented was ok, alot of things needed to be fixed when I moved in and the carpets had to be redone. So far, to date(6 mos) nothing has been fixed.My sliding glass door doesnt lock, the faucet in… Full Review ▶
I'm going to write everything completely honest, because I wish someone was more through about their reviews before I moved in. Pros: -Semi-cheap rent ($580 for 1bd1ba 650ft) -Free water and trash (Some apartments charge water allocated and can be up… Full Review ▶
When I looked at the apartments and leased my apartment, the management office didn't tell me anything about my apartment being up for sale as a condo and that realtors could come in and show it anytime they want. They told… Full Review ▶
THANK GOD MY LEASE IS ALMOST UP! THE APTS ARE TERRIBLE. FOR THE FIRST 6 MONTHS IT WAS COOL BUT NOW ITS GETTING A BIT RIDICULOUS. THEIR HAVING REALTORS COMING INTO OUR APTS 4-5 TIMES A DAY, ATLEAST 3 TIMES A… Full Review ▶
For the love of everything sacred do not live here! Seriously I am writing this not to be a ---- but we have lived here for close to 2 years. It was fine for the first 8 months and then everything… Full Review ▶
Let me begin by saying, at first, I was very excited to move in here...The assistant manager (who is no longer here) got me a bunch of discounts and gave me a portion off my rent for one of the remodeled… Full Review ▶
I just want to say that I have never had such a bad experience living at an apartment complex. While, I was lucky and got a unit in the back and it was relatively quiet, I still had to put up… Full Review ▶
My apartment finder informed me that this complex was built to condo specification, so instantly I was interested. He escorted me here and even asked the manager if it was true and she said that it was. I move in a… Full Review ▶
I read some of the negative reviews here and I would say they are lieing to you, probably because they are a people who can't pay their rent on time. The management does not "hit on" anyone being they are all… Full Review ▶
for the price you get a very nice condo with lots of ammenities. i LOVE the pool and trail..there is even a kewl bbq pit you can use and picnic tables..very nice..we are planning on renting the clubhouse soon. LOVES!!! Full Review ▶
I wouldn't recommend living here to my worst enemy. Full Review ▶
I agree, this place is not one to be loved. I regret moving here. Full Review ▶
The management is so lazy and rude!!! I have had problems with my apartment and called them everyday and nothing has happened, no one has been out to help me. I have spoken directly to the manager and told her what… Full Review ▶
I have never witnessed such dis-respect by management in my life! I have lived in many apartments, this one by far takes the cake with how rude and lazy they are here. I have been having maintenece problems for a month… Full Review ▶
The management here is dis-respectful, greedy, and rude. They are selfish, unmotivated, and just waiting on their pay checks. I regret so much moving here. I have been having maintenece problems with my apartment for a while, and the management has… Full Review ▶
Hey I will have to say that there is a Mexican ----- as manager now and the front office is run into the ground. There is break ins about every week whether its a car or an apartment. I am scared… Full Review ▶
I am going to be honest this place was really cool so much better than Bradford Apartments but yes there was some problems after I moved out. First, when I began the leasing process one of the staff told me I… Full Review ▶
I know reviews about apartments can be biased because people rarely come on here to say anything good. I'm not going to bash this place, but just list my personal reasons for not recommending this place to live. I am disappointed… Full Review ▶
I'm really only really writing this review to address the safety concerns I have with living here. I've lived in the complex for about a year and a half now, and am seriously considering moving out. Since I've moved in, I've… Full Review ▶
I've been here since June of 2007 and my lease expired May 31st. Like an idiot I renewed my lease and should have moved out the first change I had. Getting repairs fixed takes FOREVER and the front office is filled… Full Review ▶
I'm posting this pre-emptively as my lease is officially up in a couple of days and I get the impression that they are now looking for ways to screw me out of my deposit. When I first moved in several months… Full Review ▶
I just want to write a review for all of you that are looking, about how much of a diamond in the rough this complex is. The pool is a decent size, and very nice and clean. They even have a… Full Review ▶
Tybray Management at Edgecreek were very helpful. I had been looking at Edge Creek for several months to check for availability on certain floor plans. Each time we visited the staff was very friendly and sincere. We almost chose a unit… Full Review ▶
I'm going to respond to the previous post about the roaches. My unit is infested with them. At first, there were only a few, nothing to really worry about. Soon after, we'd turn on the lights in the morning (kitchen) and… Full Review ▶
This place has deteriorated faster than I've seen any place go. And to be perfectly frank, the place has changed since the new management company, Tybray, has taken over. The staff is completely unprofessional. For example, assuming that it was a… Full Review ▶
They do what ever they want to Not refund the Deposit, they speak lies ,hide details from your file. Please don't move if you really want your deposit back. Also they really have a bad gym and don't really understand the… Full Review ▶
I moved into Edge Creek in 2005 when the rent was in the mid $600 range. The place seemed to be very nice at the time, and the staff seemed friendly and very professional. My how things changed. They keep raising… Full Review ▶
I couldn't wait to be out of this place. You can hear everything your neighbors are doing; a drunk/pothead lived upstairs and was up at all hours of the night; the downstairs neighbors were always fighting and threatening to call the… Full Review ▶
This is not another complaint that should be overlooked, please take this seriously. We first moved in to the apartment in August of '07 and loved the place. It seemed quiet, the landscaping was somewhat nice and it seemed relatively peaceful.… Full Review ▶
I've been here over a year now. I don't get involved with management unless it's absolutely necessary. If it's something I can fix myself, I will. Maintenance is nice but it takes them forever to get there because I have to… Full Review ▶
I've lived here from early '05 to present (June '07). Management changed hands recently (late '06) and things have gone downhill fast. The new management are, simply put, thieves. They truly lie and steal. I've never in my life seen people… Full Review ▶
this place is over priced screaming kids garbage all over the place. lossing my rent charging me late fees when it was there. rude staffing!!!! Full Review ▶
Maintenence fixes issues quickly - very polite and pleasant. The woman who leased me my apartment was very friendly and professional Plenty of parking The view facing the creek is nice, and there is not a lot of noise coming from… Full Review ▶
These reviews are such a joke! For every bad review, BOOM, three GREAT reviews appear. It's very obvious as to whom is writing these reviews, THE MANAGEMENT. The young girl in the office has the knowledge and personality of a log,… Full Review ▶
the maintenance staff are a bunch of hot sexy guys, i actually enjoy calling in work orders, cause the maintenance men are like a box of chocolate, "You never know what your gonna get". thank you for the continued service. Full Review ▶
I find it interesting the previous poster complains about a old, fat lady in the office. If I had a complaint, it would be that the manager staff is so young. I am sure not none of them, not even the… Full Review ▶
the old was much better...the new mangaement ladies at leasing office suck, they have no manners, totally insenstive to residents problems..dont care..it seems like they never got proper etiquettes...specially the fat, old, bad breath, dirty teeth lady...run some where else...dont waste… Full Review ▶
I loved it. I lived at Edge Creek for more than a year, and I absolutely loved it. The best apartment complex I have seen, and the price is also good for Austin. I moved because I bought a house with… Full Review ▶
Edge Creek gives the best deal in the area and has a very courteous staff and prompt repair work. ive been living here for about a year and I have moved around in Austin a bit. This is THE place to… Full Review ▶
You should have seen the office staff dressed up in thier custumes for Halloween. What a fun group!
I moved here in July and am loving it! I have a ground floor that backs up to the greenbelt so I have a… Full Review ▶
I just love it here. Seen many before making a decision to apply here. No other property's appearance in this area compares. The trees are gorgeous, especially this time of year. I have a perfect view from my balcony. Nice people… Full Review ▶
I have lived here for 1 year now on my second. The staff have been excellant, the old staff was nice but the current staff is the best, willing to help you in any way possible. Maintenance has been excellant as… Full Review ▶
these reviews are funny!
I like EdgeCreek alot. Glad to be here Full Review ▶
To the person who wrote the bad checks. here are some web sites that will help you learn how to balance your check book.
like living at EdgeCreek and like the staff. no problems Full Review ▶
I don't usually post my thoughts on these web sites, but I feel I have to when I read lies and gross exaggerations. I live very close to the apartment where the gentleman died. They did put a board on the… Full Review ▶
This has been the very worst apartment I have ever lived in before. I didn't have hot water when I moved in and it took them about three weeks before they fixed it. I also did not have any water pressure… Full Review ▶
the apartments arent that bad, my rent went up 30 bucks though and i still havent seen any new appliances or hardwood floors as promised. the management are a bunch of incompetant -------, who dont know how to get anything done.… Full Review ▶
I have lived at edgeCreek for 13 months. I just renewed because this is a wonderful place to live. The management people are so friendly and helpful. My requests to have things fixed are done so fast it is almost scary!… Full Review ▶
I think management wrote some of these reviews. This is NOT a good place. Everyone is moving out, in the last 3 months their has been over 30 families move out and I don't think anyone has moved in. There is… Full Review ▶
I love it here. Will be transfering to one of the remodeled apartments and staying at least another year. The new management really knows thier stuff and keep on top of things. Glad they are here. The grounds are clean always… Full Review ▶
I got here when I was broke so I expected it to be fairly poor quality but this is ridiculous! Loud neighbors I can tolerate, crying children I can tolerate as well. They are apartmetns and single parents and college kids… Full Review ▶
good apartments or condo's or what ever they are. I don't know and don't care. the managers and maintenance are awesome. the apartments are nice and the price is right Full Review ▶
I don't live at Edge Creek, yet. I will be soon though. I read all of these reviews and had mixed feelings based on some of the negative reviews/attitudes. I decided to look and see for myself as the rates are… Full Review ▶
I have lived at EdgeCreek for 3 yrs. It is better than it has been for a long time. The parking lot is super clean, the dumpster area is finally clean now that the new maintenance guys are here, and the… Full Review ▶
i love it @ EdgeCreek. The improvements are fantastic. The managers and maintenance are awesome. Full Review ▶
great place, good rents, lots of parking, very clean, nice manager staff
what else can I say? Full Review ▶
I have to say, I like it here. I think if you are unhappy where you live, you should move instead of airing negativity. Have you improved anything about the apartments since you moved in?
I work out in the fully… Full Review ▶
I don't know where some of these reveiwers lived or what they think is good but it's not here. I don't think they have a grounds keeper, there is trash (cans, paper, even a jar of jelly someone broke) on the… Full Review ▶
this is a great place. best apartments I ever lived in. good maintenance. good management. Full Review ▶
I just want to say, if you are interested in living here, check it out for yourself. It is a nice place to live. I have lived here 3 years and it is getting better and better. Nice pool, lots of… Full Review ▶
they boast about their 7 mile hiking trail, when it is really a 5 minute walk on cracked ancient sidewalk. the new management is terrible, they're putting all new floor and appliances in all the apartments except the ones being occupied...leaving… Full Review ▶
haven't met the new managers yet, but the apartments sure look better. new paint, and cleaned up. i hear they are remodeling the insides too. Full Review ▶
I have to say, I love living here. I utilize the swimming pool as well as the hiking trails along the creek where I walk my dogs. The managers are super nice and the guys who fix things seem to really… Full Review ▶
After living in a couple different places here on Metric; this is the best by far. Price and the location are fabulous. The office staff is always polite and friendly and maintenance responds quickly.
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I love it here. The girls in the office have always been very nice to us. The maintenance people have always been right on top of getting our things fixed. The property is always clean and inviting. I recommend this place… Full Review ▶
I moved here in December of last year and was going to move as soon as my lease was over but then the new management started and now I plan to renew. The management now makes sure the parking lots are… Full Review ▶
We moved into a one-bedroom in Sept. of 2005 and originally were pleased with the staff and the price, although the appliances are ancient and the building itself is in poor condition. The new management is awful thus far--the pool was… Full Review ▶
I've lived at Edge Creek for about 5 months, and I enjoy it much. I live towards the back of the property, and I've never heard any type of problems. there is convenient parking and a lot of it. I feel… Full Review ▶
i have lived here for 7 months. the pool is nice, the managers are responsive, very nice and I believe they do thier best and the maintenance was prompt when I asked for a repair. they clean the parking lots and… Full Review ▶
I have lived at Edge Creek for 1.5 years. I love it here. We are right on a greenbelt and I have a great view. The grounds are very clean and well kept. the new management are very nice. I have… Full Review ▶
The upkeep here is terrible. The pool was green for 2 weeks recently. The new mgnt staff is rude and unresponsive. There is a lot of trash scattered throughout the property. The place also has an unfsafe feel especially at night.… Full Review ▶
I have never lived in a place so run down. The dryers don't work, no a/c in the laundry area, people steal your clothes, the fitness center equipment is broken and they say they won't fix it, the pool is really… Full Review ▶
I just walked in to go pay my rent, and I seen the management writing a comment on here. Too funny!!!!! Well Edge Creek isn't the best property around here but whatever. The rent used to be cheap, but they put… Full Review ▶
I've lived here for 2 years in 3 apartments, I've liked it and enjoyed my time here. But in the past 3 months, the staff has totally lost any sense of caring. The maintenance staff is hopeless, and took 3 days… Full Review ▶
When I moved in (Aug, 2005) and for about the next 10-11 months, living here was great. The management was super friendly, very accommodating, the landscape was decent, and the trail was awesome. Well, the trail is still great, but the… Full Review ▶
I lived in a two bedroom with my mom for a year, then moved into my own one bedroom on the property. My apt was way nicer because they had redone the cabinets and updated the appliances. But both were nice.… Full Review ▶
excellent, affordable apts Full Review ▶
I am glad my lease is up because this place always needs repairs and the place looks like a dump and so do the apartments. fridge is rusty, a.c does not work half the time roof leaks when it rains, and… Full Review ▶
uh. you would have to be a complete imbecile not to realize that the staff writes positive remarks on here. no one and i mean NO ONE would give this place a 4 or a 5. Full Review ▶
obviously from staff. shut the hell up. speaking of whiners. waaaaa. call the waaaambulance. loser. Full Review ▶
Lets see,.... our expirence was ok in some ways and terrible in some. If your like me you want to knw the bad first,so...
When we were originally moving here and looked at the model we were very impressed but when we… Full Review ▶
ok I've been living here for 2 years and here's whats going on. I've been just walking through and the smell of weed is everywhere.There is many drug dealers that work here.Lots of parties everywhere.The mantnience people dont clean up after… Full Review ▶
If you don't like apartments go buy a home. That way you can choose everything you want. You saw the interior, so quite your complaining. My gosh people....get a life. Full Review ▶
i've lived at many apartments in austin. this particular apartment wasn't the fanciest that i've stayed but i lived here for almost 2 years. never had any major problems, and the problems that i did have were promptly fixed. the people… Full Review ▶
I have lived in this complex for almost a year, and I am getting ready to renew my lease for only 6 months more. I liked this place when I first saw it, and the staff was really nice. It's not… Full Review ▶
The day after I moved in maintenance fixed what I'd written on the inventory the disposal, window screens, and oven thermostat. I love the maintenance and management. I found them extremely accurate, professional, and friendly.
My rent was cheap so… Full Review ▶
I lived in this apt for only 6 months, couldn´t stand it anymore that i have to just leave.
First, high energy bill. I go to work 9 to 6pm everyday, so that only time i used the apt is like… Full Review ▶
I really like the overall appearance of the grounds and some of the newer models of the apartments. They have a lot of light and beautiful floorplans. Closets are too narrow. Sometimes maintenance responds right away, other times you have to… Full Review ▶
I did have a mold problem, but they resolved it. It was, however, a real nightmare. Drug on and on.
Have had a real problem with maintanence. I have to ask for everything 2-3 times before it finally gets fixed.… Full Review ▶
My experience here was average until 6 months into my lease when employees were moved around. The new manager is a total "witch" (quoted from employees under her) and has done nothing but harass, scare, and discriminate against me. I´ve paid… Full Review ▶
I lived in Edgecreek for almost 3 years. The location and the greenbelt were great, and even the pool was nice. But, the utility bills were outrageous becuause the air systems were 20 years old. We made several calls to the… Full Review ▶
EDGECREEK IS FULL OF ---- IT CLAIMS GOOD THINGS FOR TENANTS AND ONCE IN THEY TREAT YOU LIKE ----. DOGS RUN RAMPANT AND DEFECATE EVERYWHERE. MOLD IS GROWING EVERYWHERE IN CLOSETS NEAR WINDOWS. THE RENOVATION DONE WAS JUST A COVER UP… Full Review ▶
EDGE CREEK IS SUPER RUN DOWN AND OLD. WASHERS AND DRYERS DON´T WORK, MOLD IS EVERYWHERE IN THE COMPLEX. NEW MANAGEMENT WONT REFUND YOUR DEPOSIT TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE BEFORE THEY TOOK OVER CLAIMING THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR… Full Review ▶
Crime is very bad at this place with many drugs and many drug dealers. Giant dogs run
wild and the workers drink at night and drive very fast through the parking lot. I am very scared to stay here and never… Full Review ▶
WOW, didn´t know that the apartment complex could promise anyones safety. Doubt it. I wonder if that person got that in writing. Doubt it. Police report indicates low crime rate as of 8/4/01. That is one of the reasons why we… Full Review ▶
not safe, lots of drugs, place falling apart. Our year is up at the end of the month and we are moving!!!!!!! Full Review ▶
First of all I would like to make a comment to the person that wrote "Edge Hole" . I can only assume you know there is smoke smell in every apartment because you have walked ALL the apartments...NOT. People might take… Full Review ▶
Overpriced for what you get. The carpets cabinetray and all appliances are something out of the early eightys. The appliances do however work. The secretaries in the office are complete airheads, don´t bother even trying to work with them. Go straight… Full Review ▶
We have been at this property for 9 months and we would recommend it to anyone! Service and management have been the best we have seen since we have lived in apartments the last 10 years. They have done more in… Full Review ▶
This is the worst company I have ever encountered. They won´t fix anything, they alter legal documents like your lease, pet deposit, ect. They even send your packages back to the sender if you don´t pick them up in 24 hours!… Full Review ▶
Although I do agree about the Manager, not the Management, I work in the apt. industry (no connection with this one), & have discovered how much people enjoy whining about menial things or not telling the whole story. I know (from… Full Review ▶
It takes forever to get something fixed. The manager is mean, and the service poor. This gem has faded. Keep looking. Full Review ▶
The new company, Barons, won´t fix things. The dumpster is overflowing, the toilet overflowing, the air conditioner not working. The office is nasty to renters. They even have an employees only sign up!
move on, move up, this place sux
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My favorite part of living here was the back door access to the city of Austin hike and bike trails. They also accept larger dogs, which was nice since mine was 40 lbs and over the acceptable weight limits of most… Full Review ▶
The hike and bike trail is fantastic! Most everyone that lives here has a dog and they run free in the fields behind the complex. The few people that don´t have dogs complain, but no one pays attention.
The complex… Full Review ▶
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