Algorithm Helps Researchers See Visual Intelligence in a Different Light
Visual Intelligence What we see and what we actually perceive and notice are two different things. A computer algorithm is helping researchers determine exactly how our visual intelligence works. Franziska F. For a species so steeped in visual information, humans actually aren't very good at picking up on change (your childhood success with Highlights magazine puzzles notwithstanding). But a new computer-based model is shedding light on what we see and what we don't even when the obvious is right in front of us. "Change blindness" is the term for our keen ability to overlook even drastic changes to the scenes around us. Researchers have long studied this peculiarity of our visual intelligence by presenting test subjects with photos of the same scene slightly altered (just like the barstool arcade games based purely on this same bit of biology). But when humans are in charge of altering the photos, it introduces a human...