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How We See

The brain processes a wealth of visual information in parallel so that we perceive the world around us in the blink of an eye


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Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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Jorge Cham draws the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper at www.phdcomics.com. He is also co-author of the new book We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, published by Riverhead Books.

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SA Mind Vol 27 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “What You See Is What You Get?” in SA Mind Vol. 27 No. 5 (), p. 76
doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0916-76