The study shows that the brain does not faithfully reproduce reality

The organ combines information from the present with vestiges from the past

A study conducted in Trieste, Italy, revealed that the human brain does not faithfully reproduce reality, averaging the past and what is happening at the moment.

According to research by the Scuola Superiore Internazionale di Studi Avanzati of Trieste, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the results indicate that illusory perception is generated by visual neurons, which combine present sensory information with traces of past information.

The phenomenon occurs due to the discrepancy between the limited resources of the brain and the overabundance of stimuli that bombard the senses.

Again according to scholars, this distortion of perception of reality reflects the body’s need to find regularity in the outside world, making it more predictable and more understandable.

The researchers led by the Italian Michele Fornaciai asked a group of volunteers to observe black and white dots appearing in a very short sequence on a computer screen.

The experiment showed that people’s perception was, in fact, conditioned by the images they had already seen.

“A group of objects was judged, for example, to be larger or more numerous than it actually was. This depended on whether the participant had previously seen a larger or more numerous set of points,” Fornaciai reported. .

Source: Terra

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