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What Your Brain Sees May Not Be What You See
National Geographic: According to research published in the journal Psychological Science, our brains pick up on images that we never consciously perceive. Volunteers were shown a series of black-and-white images while hooked up to an
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‘Seeing’ Without Seeing
Close the doors, cover the windows, seal any cracks — the room is now pitch black. You can’t see anything…or can you? New research from psychological scientists at the University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, and
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Our Pupils Adjust as We Imagine Bright and Dark Scenes
Conjuring up a visual image in the mind — like a sunny day or a night sky — has a corresponding effect on the size of our pupils, as if we were actually seeing the
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Some people can ‘see’ in total darkness, study says
USA Today: At least 50 percent of people can see the movement of their own hand even in the absence of all light, according to a new study. Kevin Dieter, a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt
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Your brain sees things that you don’t
PBS: Your brain saw something in the black and white image above, even if you didn’t. According to a study published this week in the online journal Psychological Science, the brain processes and understands visual
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Your Brain ‘Sees’ Things Even When You Don’t
The brain processes visual input to the level of understanding its meaning even if we never consciously perceive that input, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
