Change-blindness as a result of 'mudsplashes.'
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Research into change-blindness indicates that large changes can be made simultaneously to a scene without being noticed when a few small, high-contrast shapes are briefly scattered over the picture. It was established that central-interest changes are usually detected as soon as they take place, while marginal-interest changes are seen only on their second or later occurrences. Marginal-interest changes were not identified at all during the 40 second viewing period in between 13% and 30% of cases, even though they were in full view. It appears that humans' internal representation of the visual field is much sparser than the subjective experience of seeing indicates.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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The neurobiology of sign language and its implications for the neural basis of language
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The left hemisphere of the brain dominates acquisition and use of both spoken and sign language. Sign language users with brain lesions on one side show left hemisphere dominance despite the dependence of sign language on visuo-spatial processible rather than temporal information. Both sign and spoken languages are highly structure systems and their neural organization in the hemispheres is identical. This indicates that the left hemisphere dominance is due to a higher-property of the language system rather than its physical characteristics or motor production.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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Mirror script
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Leftward eye movements, the left visual field and the brain's right hemisphere provide a means of accounting for the use of leftward mirror writing by the ancient Semites, Greeks and Romans. Specifically, these cultures in their early years probably started out with leftward writing because of the right hemisphere's influence when writing is first developed rather than because of the ancient predominance of left-handedness as V. Smetacek suggested. A later shift to left-hemisphere dominance probably brought on the change to rightward writing.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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