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Stories about: visual system

Researcher Finds Explanation for Optical Illusions The human brain only makes sense of the images we are seeing about one-tenth of a second after light hits the retina, meaning that in fact our visual system is somehow impaired by neural lag, for which the brain must compensate. How this is done is still under debate, with some scientists proposing that the motor sys... 2 June 2008 10:37 GMT