Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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How Much of Your Brain Is Dedicated to Processing Visual Information?
M so visionis kind of intriguing because it's very effortless for us. People can recognize pictures people from pictures, like an attension of a second. How much of your brain is devoted to just processing visual information? Ok? Ah. So i'll tell you the little that i know, which is very, very little. I didn't expect to be taci a as o going. And thena, stuff comes end to a, through my optic nerve to the occipital lobe here. In the monkey brain, about 50 % of the n brain, like a maco's brain, is devoted to visual processing. About 30% of the human brain is probably just devoted
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