A three-year review into swimming’s physical and visual impairment classification is set to commence this year, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming has announced.

With the Paris 2024 Paralympics well under way, we take a look at how the classification system works in para-sport – and how are athletes’ classifications defined?

Dubai has launched the world’s first icon-based classification system to represent the level of human–machine collaboration ...

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of ...

The human visual system analyzes shapes and objects in a series of stages in which stimulus features of increasing complexity are extracted and analyzed. The first stages use simple local features ...

A new brain imaging study of dyslexia shows that visual system differences do not cause the disorder, but instead are likely a consequence. A new brain imaging study of dyslexia shows that ...

Although best corrected visual acuity was the only visual function test ready for immediate use in a diabetic retinal disease staging system, others showed promise or potential, according to a ...

Neuroscientists identify a small molecule that restores visual function after optic nerve injury Date: January 20, 2023 Source: City University of Hong Kong ...

A new brain imaging study of dyslexia shows that differences in the visual system do not cause the disorder, but instead are likely a consequence. The findings, published today in the journal ...