How Your Moving Brain Sees the World?

SAIKAT HALDER

tech blogger | Posted on 8-Dec-2018

What we perceive is not only determined by what but is also dependent on whether we pay

adequate attention to it. Whether we are excited, interested or moving is also a factor in

the case of hoe a moving brain sees the world. According to a study conducted by Neuro

Electronics Research Flanders , the process of visual information the brain is directed by the

brains or its behaviour. Focusing on one object makes us blind for the other objects in the

scenery. This is called “inattentional blindness” explains how the perception is affected by a

state of mind.

According to a team of researchers that was headed by Professor Vincent Bonin,

animals carry out the navigation in the world by receiving and processing visual images and the

brain requires this info to guide the movements of the body in space. In order to address the

question of how moving brain sees the world, the scientists at Neuro Electronics Research

Flanders used devices of micro metres size; which are named neuro pixels. These new

devices enables the recording of any electrical activity of numerous neurons at the same time

instead of a few of them in neuroscience labs.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181120125911.htm

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balal rumy

Blogger | Posted on 30-Nov-2018

The brain perceives the world... poorly.

Of course no one knows the answer to this question with much certainty. It's essentially the overarching question of all neuroscience/psychology/philosophy...

In neuroscience, this is such a tough question to truly pin down because the brain perceives the world via massive parallel processing (a.k.a. it's really complicated).

If you look at a chair, you get perception A. If you look at a chair while smelling a rose, you get perception B. If you smelled a rose while looking at a chair in the past, and then later you just look at a chair, you get perception C. Just about anything can potentially effect anything and this makes understanding perception at a high level to be ridiculously challenging.

If we try to limit our talk of perception to the human visual system, we can talk about illusions and interesting case studies!

There are cases of people who were blind (from or very early in development) until later in their life (maybe 30s or later) and when they first get their vision, they have no idea how to interact with the world. They look at a cup, something they've been using their whole life, but only see it for the geometrical shape it assumes. Of course, when they touch the cup they immediately know what it is and have all these preconceptions about how to use it.