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2:37am January 31, 2014

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Brain-scan Technique Sheds Light on Vision

Every time you open your eyes, visual information flows into your brain, which interprets what you’re seeing. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have noninvasively mapped this flow of information in the human brain with unique accuracy, using a novel brain-scanning technique.

This technique, which combines two existing technologies, allows researchers to identify precisely both the location and timing of human brain activity. Using this new approach, the MIT researchers scanned individuals’ brains as they looked at different images and were able to pinpoint, to the millisecond, when the brain recognizes and categorizes an object, and where these processes occur.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/01/brain-scan-technique-sheds-light-vision

Whoa.  From what they’re saying, I really seriously wonder if the parts of my brain aren’t talking to each other as well or as fast as they do in other people or something, given the fact that I often just see shapes and colors rather than object categories, and often have to workto do that stuff that happens supposedly in milliseconds.  (And even when I don’t have to work, often if I see enough stuff it all breaks down again.)

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