Our brains trust made-up vision over what's real

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3127, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Seeing shouldn't always be believing. People all have blind spots in their vision, but they don't notice them because their brains fill in the gaps with made-up information. Now subtle tests show that they trust this "take vision" more than the real thing. If the brain works like this mother ways, it suggests that they should be less trusting of the evidence from their senses, says Christoph Teufel of Cardiff University, UK, who wasn't involved in the study. The blind spot is caused by a patch at the back of each eye where there are no light-sensitive cells.