Study Shows That It Is Our Brains, Not Eyes, That See Color
Cool video of how the did binocular rivalry, too. Binocular Rivarly would make a good pretending-grad-school-is-a-career-move-not-a-stalling-tactic band name, too.To study how the brain represents the color of objects, the researchers used a technique called binocular rivalry. The technique presents a different image to each eye and thus pits signals from the right eye against signals from the left.
“The brain has difficulty integrating the two eyes’ incompatible signals. When the signals from the two eyes are different enough, the brain resolves the conflicting information by suppressing the information from one of the eyes,” Shevell said. “We exploited this feature of the brain with a method that caused the shape from one eye to be suppressed but not its color.”
