Sunday, October 19, 2014

How the Brain Leads Us to Believe We Have Sharp Vision

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How the Brain Leads Us to Believe We Have Sharp Vision

neurosciencenews.com - We assume that we can see the world around us in sharp detail. In fact, our eyes can only process a fraction of our surroundings precisely. In a series of experiments, psychologists at Bielefeld University have been investigating how the brain fools us into believing that we see in sharp detail. The results have been published in the scientific magazine Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Its central finding is that our nervous system uses past visual experiences to predict how blurred objects would look in sharp detail.

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