The Brain Adapts in a Blink to Compensate for Missing Information

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 14:14 in Biology & Nature

The human brain has long been known to perceive things that aren't there--from phantom limbs to patterns in chaos. But a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) shows for the first time that it is surprisingly quick to bend reality when normal perception is disrupted. The results were published yesterday in The Journal of Neuroscience. [More]

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