Scientists Find Evidence That the Human Brain Is Constantly Snapping Between Different Realities
"The brain rapidly alternates, about 15 times per second, between conscious and suppressed micro-epochs." The post Scientists Find Evidence That the Human Brain Is Constantly Snapping Between Different Realities appeared first on Futurism .
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered that our brains rapidly shift between conscious and unconscious stimuli at a rate of about 15 times per second. This finding, detailed in a pre-print study, suggests that our brains are more adept at filtering out unnecessary stimuli than previously thought. The researchers compared the brain's processing of simultaneous visual stimuli by using anaglyph glasses to present one face to one eye and another face to the other eye while monitoring neural activity.
Subjects' brains swiftly alternated between viewing the second face and treating the first as a background element, indicating that conscious perception requires selective filtering of incoming sensory information. The study reveals that both the inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex are involved in this rapid switching, indicating that our conscious experiences are not simply a passive reception of stimuli but an active, constantly evolving process.
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