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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Saccadic suppression

Blah blah blah... what I do ;)
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.

A link to the article, but of course you need to have access to nature.

posted by Steve at 11/09/2006 10:35:00 AM  

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