Visual Cognition

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Cool, women have a chance of having 4 pigements for colour, where as men have a chance of only have 2. So, while men can be color-blind, women can have super color vision.

    I guess that's why women are more fashionable, statistically speaking.

    I should note here too, that if you have 4 pigments for color, there is a likelihood that you could have a color-blind son. I don't if that is exactly true or why, that's just what I heard on a lecture series about visual cognition.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    It's also interesting to note that you can stare at a fixed spot but shift your attention to the corners of your eyes. Experiments showed that during this kind of attention shift, images shown directly in the eye's line of sight were statistically not consciously seen to the subject.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I got the first two right away, and the third one after 30 seconds or so. This is somewhat surprising to me, since I am notoriously oblivious to my surroundings. Once I said to my mom (who I visit once every couple of weeks) "Hey, you painted the house!" She just stared at me for a few seconds, shook her head and said "Yeah, a year and a half ago." Don't ever expect me to notice that you cut your hair or lost weight, because I won't ... most visual stuff goes right past me. I guess it's just because I was expecting to notice something. In my everyday life a zebra could probably wander around my house for a while before I noticed he was there.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    hippiemom wrote:
    I got the first two right away, and the third one after 30 seconds or so. This is somewhat surprising to me, since I am notoriously oblivious to my surroundings. Once I said to my mom (who I visit once every couple of weeks) "Hey, you painted the house!" She just stared at me for a few seconds, shook her head and said "Yeah, a year and a half ago." Don't ever expect me to notice that you cut your hair or lost weight, because I won't ... most visual stuff goes right past me. I guess it's just because I was expecting to notice something. In my everyday life a zebra could probably wander around my house for a while before I noticed he was there.
    Look around.

    Is there a zebra wandering around?
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Too cool!
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V

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