Faster Brain Waves Make Shorter Gaps in the Visual Stream
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 17:50
in Psychology & Sociology
"Blink and you'll miss it" isn't only for eyelids. The human brain also blinks, dropping a few frames of visual information here and there. Those lapses of attention come fast -- maybe just once every tenth of a second. But some people may be missing more than others, according to psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.