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Interesting: your visual cortex gets switched off every time you move your eyes
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[quote:AnonCh4rl1:MV8zODk4NTQyXzcwMjU5NDI0XzQ0NzREQUM0] Nice avatar OP Dr Flox was awesome. would have been nice to see a few episodes on his backstory. also your thread is interesting, any way to turn it off other than LSD i thin I would prefer all the info even if blurry, maybe a firmware update? Its interesting because wtf possible evolutionary advantage could there be in turning off your vision for microseconds? the evolution of eyes / eyelids / tear ducts and all the wetware processing that goes along with it makes no sense, anything evolving to have have crusty dry eyes amongst species that have no sight is ludicrous, they would probably loose sight within hours, die of infection etc it days. Meh enjoy the simulation folks. [/quote]
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Another thread made me read more about saccadic masking.
Every time you move your eyes (and they are moving all the time), your brain switches off the processing of retinal images. When the movement stops, the processing starts again. During that time you're effectively blind. It's called saccadic masking.
If this didn't happen, you'd see blurred images every time your eyes move.
Our field of vision seems to be continuous due to a phenomenom known as transsaccadic memory. The brain takes in the image obtained just before the saccadic mask sets in, and the image it gets when the mask is lifted. It then integrates these two images to fill in the gap.
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