Tuesday, June 03, 2008

I can see into the future ...

... and so can you. Of course it's only for 1/10th of a second, but ...

Scientists already knew about the lag, yet they have debated over exactly how we compensate, with one school of thought proposing our motor system somehow modifies our movements to offset the delay.

Changizi now says it's our visual system that has evolved to compensate for neural delays, generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future.

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