How We See The brain processes a wealth of visual information in parallel so that we perceive the world around us in the blink of an eye
Advertisement This article was originally published with the title "What You See Is What You Get?" in SA Mind 27, 5, 76 (September 2016)
doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0916-76
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Recent Articles by Dwayne Godwin Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com. He is also co-author of the new book We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, published by Riverhead Books.
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