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'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain
Too much stuff in the periphery of our vision can make it difficult to identify what we’re seeing. Yale researchers now know how that clutter affects the brain.
The findings help clarify the neural basis of perception and offer a deeper understanding of the visual cortex in the brain. The researchers are now interested in how clutter might affect information processing between brain regions and how attention influences this system. “How does that attention compensate for the fact that while you don’t have the best resolution information, you’re still able to perceive that attended part of the visual space much better than where you’re actually looking?” said Jadi.
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