A kayak refers to a type of sporting boat that has a lighter weight than a canoe. The sleek design of the kayak allows you to easily maneuver the boat without the help of a fellow paddler. Perception Kayaks produces lightweight boats. The RTM...
A newborn's vision is not very acute or coordinated, though it improves over the next several months. Depth perception, or a three-dimensional view of the world, develops between 5 and 8 months. This helps your infant identify edges and drops and...
Previously manufactured by Perception, the Torrent 10.0 kayak is now marketed by Perception's sister brand, Dagger. The sit-on-top kayak is stable enough to maneuver through a rocky environment and Class III whitewater.
The Perception Quest model kayak was one of Perception Incorporated's first plastic kayaks. It was groundbreaking for the mid 1970s when most boats were wooden or fiberglass. The company quickly moved on to new models, abandoning the Quest model...
Perception Kayaks designed the Tribute as an efficient boat for smaller paddlers. The efficiency allows for faster speeds. Its hull design and rocker provide a snappy feel that is easily controlled.
Depth perception refers to the ability of your eyes to focus in on an object and calculate approximately how close it is in relationship to your body. Your depth perception can be compromised as the result of a lazy eye, light deprivation or...
Big boats by today's whitewater kayak standards, the Pirouette series of kayaks by Perception are classic river runners. The Pirouette models were build for speed and handling. While not the gymnast many of the new play boats are, the three...
Perception Acadia Series kayaks are recreational crafts that are designed for stability and sturdiness, yet track well across the water.
Games can help children develop their visual perception skills by forcing them to look closely at images, shapes and colors. These games challenge children to make fine distinctions between images, to remember images or to make connections between...
Depth perception refers to our eyes' ability to focus on an object and calculate its distance from us. When one eye is stronger than the other, depth perception becomes distorted causing your child to be unable to focus. Regular exercise helps to...
Visual perception -- also known as visual processing -- is the brain's ability to make sense of what the eyes see. Children with poor visual perception may struggle to read well, while their written work may be poorly spaced and messy. Weak visual...
Perception continues whittling down its sit-on-top kayak line, replacing its popular and versatile Illusion, Napali, Mandalay and Torrent variants with the Tribe and Search models. Tribe sit-on-tops are basically highly maneuverable playboats,...
According to Donald J. Getz, O.D., up to 75 to 80 percent of what a child learns comes through the visual sense. Children with learning disabilities, autism and cerebral palsy often have underlying eye tracking and visual perceptual problems....
Kayaking remains a prominent recreational form of leisure and sport boating. Perception Kayaks manufactures kayaks for the various paddling disciplines. Its Aquaterra Keowee kayak offered a simplistic design for novice paddlers. The construction...
People who have color blindness cannot distinguish certain colors, such as red, green, blue or yellow. A person might have only black and white vision, a condition known as achromatopsia, but this form of colorblindness is quite rare. Color...
The brain consists of three functional regions, which developed at differing times over the course of human evolution. The newest and most complex area of the brain is the forebrain, which consists of the cerebrum and its underlying support...
Problems with your vision comes from the eyes being mentally fatigued and tensed muscles that change and distort the normal spherical shape of the eye, according to William H. Bates, an ophthalmologist who created the Bates Method for the...
Whether at home or in your professional life, the skills necessary to talk and influence people will serve you well in your interpersonal relationships. Demands, pushiness and forcing your ideas and will on other people is usually met with...
The entire body and all its functions, voluntary and involuntary, are managed by a combination of the right and left hemispheres of the brain and the lobes housed in each. The left hemisphere is in charge of the right side of the body and...
Adolescence is a time of physical and emotional changes, and parents may be surprised by the changes and development visible in their adolescent children. A mother's perception of her child's body size and weight can be particularly influential in...
Whether you're helping your little guy prepare for Little League or your teens prepare for after-school baseball or softball, or even if you're an adult, playing for city leagues or the majors, one of the most important aspects of the game is your...
Conflict is a fact of life and occurs at all levels of your life. In personal relationships, conflict can provide a healthy way to develop intimacy, trust and respect. Your perceptions filter certain issues that may or may not become the cause of...
Perception develops through information that is gathered from the senses, which allows children to make sense of their environment. As they grow, babies and young children learn to discern information from the environment that is significant to...
Life is for living. We all know that cliché and almost everybody has used it. However, in today's high-pressure society it is easy to get caught up in external pressures, sucked into a routine and end up in a rut. Too many people look...
The brain is the human body's control center. The largest part of the brain is the cerebral cortex, which can be divided into symmetrical left and right brain hemispheres. The right brain processes information in an intuitive, creative, and...
Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling brain disorder that, according to Mental Health America Organization (MHA), affects approximately 2.5 million Americans. Symptoms usually manifest between the ages of 13 and 25, with males typically...
The eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin contain sensory receptors or specialized nerve endings that act as sense detectors. Sensory receptors transfer detected stimuli to regions of the brain that allow people to perceive the sensory information....
Biorhythms, first studied over 3,000 years ago in Asia, are the rhythms and patterns of your biological clock. Divided into a physical cycle, an emotional cycle and an intellectual cycle, your biorhythms begin the moment you are born and continue...
A process that involves the cells of your tongue and nasal passages causes the smell of food to affect taste. The conjunction of the senses of smell and taste allows your brain to define a food’s flavor. Certain lifestyle choices, vitamin...
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