
Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Choosing a Different Centre of Your Frame of Reference Can Really Change the Way You're Looking at Information
We move our eyes three times per second, and at a speed of about 500 degrees per second. The brain has to compensate for these eye movements. It has to assemble the snap shots that are taken am by the photo receptor ray at each of the different positions that your eyes might be looking. So that's an example of how choosing a different a centre of your frame of reference can really change the way you're looking at at various types of information.
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