Why You Can’t Smell Yourself (and Other Ways Your Senses Lie to You)
Sensory adaptation: e.g. Tuning out background noise - repeated signals from the same source are quelled to prevent overwhelming your central processing. The brain tunes your senses to block out everything that's not important.
5:38 A "just noticeable difference" is the percentage difference in a stimulus, not an absolute difference.
10:48 why our eyes move in small saccadic movements
18:51 what you "sense" is only a fraction of what's out there.
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