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The Key to All Optical Illusions: Humans Can See into the Future

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"Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.

And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions.

Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says it starts with a neural lag that most everyone experiences while awake. When light hits your retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a visual perception of the world.

Scientists already knew about the lag, yet they have debated over exactly how we compensate, with one school of thought proposing our motor system somehow modifies our movements to offset the delay."
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2 responses // The Key to All Optical Illusions: Humans Can See into the Future

  • Holy shit, that's one of the most interesting things I've ever heard relating the human eye, other than knowing that our eyes project the world upside down.
    cerealforeal
  • the more i read this, the more im amazed.
    lemonsun12

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