Tag: perception
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Filling in the gaps (of the blind spot). Believing (what is not there). Lies. Truth.
To make sense of the world, humans and animals need to combine information from multiple sources. This is usually done according to how reliable each piece of information is. For example, to know when to cross the street, we usually rely more on what we see than what we hear - but this can change…
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Names.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". This phrase - from William Shakespeare's tragic play Romeo & Juliet - is among the most famous acknowledgements in Western culture of the power of naming to shape human perception. According to the International Union of Geological…
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Reach the clouds.
Colossal clouds cloak the surface of Venus, making it difficult for researchers to probe its secrets. One way astronomers have peered through the haze is with the European Space Agency’s Venus Express satellite, which orbited the veiled planet from 2006 until 2014. Data collected by the craft revealed how features on the surface, like mountains,…
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You have seen this before…
People say they see things for the very first time. But you cannot see anything you have not seen before. Because the very moment you see it, you have already seen it… And the only reason you see it is because you already understand it. A mind cannot understand what it does not already know.…
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Brain, Bayesian reasoning, hallucinations, schizophrenia, obstacles…
By weaving together expectations and information gleaned from the senses, the brain creates a story about the outside world. “The brain is a guessing machine, trying at each moment of time to guess what is out there,” says computational neuroscientist Peggy Seriès. Guesses just slightly off — like mistaking a smile for a smirk —…
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