The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Michael O'Shea

Author:Michael O'Shea
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

How the brain might achieve such a feat of image manipulation is beyond our current understanding. The task must involve more than removing the visual information associated with the gorilla because the gorilla image is not replaced by a gorilla-shaped hole in vision. The space occupied by the gorilla is filled in appropriately with what would have been seen behind it had the gorilla not actually been there. Equally remarkable, those who witnessed the invisibility of the gorilla could not recall anything odd about their perception of the original video. Apparently there was no accessible memory trace left of the strange case of the disappearing gorilla. This example should make us sceptical about the veracity of eyewitness accounts where accuracy matters, in the reporting of crimes, for example.

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