You’re agitated by the sound of a mosquito buzzing around your head. The buzzing stops. You feel the tiny pinprick and locate the target. Whack! It’s over.
It’s a simple sequence, but it demands complex processing. How did you know where the mosquito was before you could even see it?
The human body is covered in about two square metres of skin, but somehow even before looking you knew the precise location of the spindly predator. After visual confirmation, your hand found its way to the scene of the crime and applied fatal force to the bug, but you didn’t hurt yourself in the process. [Read more…] about Our brains perceive our environment differently when we’re lying down
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