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Visual Capacity with One Eye at a Time

June 10, 20211 min readBylib Assist
Theory & Definitions
More than 50 percent of the brain is devoted to visual processing visual information. "The Mind’s Eye," Rochester Review, Susan Hagen, March-April 2012, https://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V74N4/0402_brainscience.html
I'm aphantasia. Some see out of one eye at a time from birth. Does that affect the weight or how much the brain is devoted to visual processing?
Nice to find the NYTimes article.

Visual Capacity with One Eye at a Time

June 10, 20211 min readBylib Assist
Theory & Definitions
More than 50 percent of the brain is devoted to visual processing visual information. "The Mind’s Eye," Rochester Review, Susan Hagen, March-April 2012, https://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V74N4/0402_brainscience.html
I'm aphantasia. Some see out of one eye at a time from birth. Does that affect the weight or how much the brain is devoted to visual processing?
Nice to find the NYTimes article.
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Caroline Handley•recently•edited
If you can only see out of one eye, it affects much more than that, as you need binocular vision to perceive depth in the world. Read Fixing my gaze by Susan Barry, a neuroscientist, it's fascinating: https://www.jci.org/articles/view/41156 For example, she writes about the first time she went out in the snow after gaining 3-D vision and how she was in awe at all the flakes falling around her rather than as a flat sheet in front of her.
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