Saturday, December 24, 2022

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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