How Our Brain Resolves Sight
Posted on November 9, 2006 Comments (6)
Brain Pathway Brings Order to Visual Chaos
The world you see around you appears perfectly stationary, even though your eyes dart back and forth two to three times every second in little hops called saccades. For more than a century researchers have assumed that the brain must keep track of the impulses that cause these tiny motions, so as to subtract their effect from our visual awareness. Now researchers have identified a circuit in the monkey brain that seems to play this role.
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May 19th, 2008 @ 10:01 am
“the inside out organization of the cephalopod eye relative to ours: they have photoreceptors that face towards the light, while we have photoreceptors that are facing away from the light…”
July 12th, 2008 @ 11:47 am
The study makes two important scientific advances: “[T]here is an identifiable neural pattern associated with perception and contemplation of individual objects, and that part of the pattern is shared” by people…
February 18th, 2009 @ 8:45 am
The truth is, no color actually exists outside of our brain’s perception of it. Everything we call a color—and there are a lot more than what comes in your box of Crayolas—only exists in our heads…
June 15th, 2009 @ 10:16 am
“We present hybrid images, a technique that produces static images with two interpretations, which change as a function of viewing distance. Hybrid images are based on the multiscale processing of images by the human visual system…”
September 2nd, 2009 @ 1:37 am
“The world you see around you appears perfectly stationary, even though your eyes dart back and forth two to three times every second in little hops called saccades”…this is cool! I like your blog
September 2nd, 2009 @ 1:42 am
“The truth is, no color actually exists outside of our brain’s perception of it”, can someone explain that words more details? This is interesting topic