How does the brain construct three-dimensional projections of the surrounding world? After all, even moving around in a dark room, a person intuitively understands where its walls go to dangerous corners and hard floors. "One of the tools to assess the distance to objects - this is the prospect" - runs across tables and chairs Baz Rokers, assistant professor at the above-mentioned university. Anyone who thought of her as just a word to which it is difficult to pick up a rhyme, let them conduct a simple experiment. It is necessary to draw two horizontal lines of the same length in the image of the road leaving for the horizon. Although you are sure that the lines are identical (he himself did it!), The brain will stand on its own: the upper one is farther, which means that it is longer. How the best optical illusions deceive your brain Perception of the perspective is vital: assessing the speed and direction of the running penguin will make it impossible to get under his hooves, so the brain is used to determining such things in fractions of seconds.
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