New York, Jan 16
In as less as 13 milliseconds, the human brain can process a dozen images flashed in front of you!
A team of neuroscientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that the human brain can process entire images that the eye sees for as little as 13 milliseconds - the first evidence of such rapid processing speed.
That speed is far faster than the 100 milliseconds suggested by previous studies.
The fact that you can do that at these high speeds indicates that what vision does is find concepts, said the study appeared in the journal Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
"That's what the brain is doing all day long - trying to understand what we're looking at," said Mary Potter, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and senior author of the study.
Researchers asked participants to look for a particular type of image - such as 'picnic' or 'smiling couple' - as they viewed a series of six or 12 images - each presented for between 13 and 80 milliseconds.
By:IANS