Posted on 09/14/2009 12:52:15 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Sept 10, 2009 — In slapstick comedy, the fall guy gets the pie in the face when the clown in front of him ducks. It’s funny because most of us instinctively duck when we see something coming. But two recent experimental studies are revealing new automated capabilities built into the eye and brain that are quicker and more automatic than our reflexes or the brain’s visual center.
A team from the Canadian Institutes of Health, publishing in PNAS,[1] ran experiments on a subject that had damage to the visual cortex. They were surprised to learn that the subject could still avoid obstacles in the way during hand-reach experiments. Another experiment showed that the obstacle avoidance was nullified when a 2-second delay was introduced, providing “compelling evidence that these mechanisms can operate in ‘real-time’ without direct input from primary visual cortex (V1),” they said. What does this mean? The subject “was able to code the position of the obstacles despite being unaware of their presence.”
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Pshaw.
Who ain't???
Crackhead.
Slut.
Community organizer.
It would certainly appear that way! Good observation :o)
I see dead people before they see me.
That is all.
Ouch.
Do what?
> "Hit the ball", he said...."You close your eyes as soon as the ball is on its way to you....but you hit it every time".
I do it playing baseball, too.
Woman beater.
Kitten-kicker.
Could you visualize kicking Obama out of office while you’re at it :o)
It figures she'd be on the other side of the dang planet.
Besides, I'm too busy smoking crack and organizing my community.
Pssssst....we’re old friends. Haven’t seen each other in a while. ;-)
This is related to the concepts in the book “The Inner Game Of Tennis”, where he spoke of muscle memory and training to respond without the brain.
If you’ve ever trained for a very fast sport like fencing, sabre, epee, IPSC, IDPA, or Three Gun you probably have noticed times when your body reacts before your brain gets involved.
There are loops and circuits in our nervous system that don’t involve the brain, like the patellar reflex.
I’ll kick him again if you don’t watch it.
And kicking kittens.
“Keep in mind that the eye is a physical extension of the brain, and that therefore, in a way, even the eyeball is brain tissue”
I wouldn’t go that far. The eye is its own organ. However, it is part of the Nervous System, and therefore intimately related to the brain.
Fascinating. Apparently it’s not just muscle memory, it would appear that the eye literally directs the body to react to unfamiliar objects.
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