Can we 'learn to see?': Study shows perception of invisible stimuli improves with training
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 17:07
in Psychology & Sociology
Rockville, MD -- Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness. A new study in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's Journal of Vision reveals that our brains can be trained to consciously see stimuli that would normally be invisible.