The Eye: How You Really See the World
In short: The human eye converts light into electrical signals, but the brain uses internal models and Bayesian inference to construct the visual world we perceive.
A 1:15 short film in the series “Mysteries Explained”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Neurosciences, “Retinal phototransduction”; National Institutes of Health, “Photoreceptors at a glance”; NIH, “How vision begins: An odyssey”; University of Minnesota (Open Textbook Library), “Sensation & Perception - V3 - Open Textbook Library”; Harvard University, “Harvard Vision Sciences Lab”; NCBI, “Bayesian Causal Inference Accounts for Multisensory Filling-In at the Blind Spot”; National Institutes of Health, “A new taxonomy for perceptual filling-in”; National Institutes of Health (NIH) / PubMed Central, “Color vision: Opsins and options”; Scientific American, “The Processes of Vision”.
Sources used in this film
- Neurosciences — Retinal phototransduction · View →
- National Institutes of Health — Photoreceptors at a glance · View →
- NIH — How vision begins: An odyssey · View →
- University of Minnesota (Open Textbook Library) — Sensation & Perception - V3 - Open Textbook Library · View →
- Harvard University — Harvard Vision Sciences Lab · View →
- NCBI — Bayesian Causal Inference Accounts for Multisensory Filling-In at the Blind Spot · View →
- National Institutes of Health — A new taxonomy for perceptual filling-in · View →
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) / PubMed Central — Color vision: Opsins and options · View →
- Scientific American — The Processes of Vision · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Neurosciences: Retinal phototransduction
- Also: Photoreceptors at a glance
- Also: NIH: How vision begins: An odyssey
- Also: University of Minnesota (Open Textbook Library): Sensation & Perception - V3 - Open Textbook Library
- Also: Harvard University: Harvard Vision Sciences Lab
- Also: PubMed Central (PMC), U.S. National Library of Medicine / National Center for Biotechnology Information; article by rese: Bayesian Causal Inference Accounts for Multisensory Filling-In at the Blind Spot
- Also: National Institutes of Health: A new taxonomy for perceptual filling-in
- Also: National Institutes of Health (NIH) / PubMed Central: Color vision: Opsins and options
- Also: Scientific American: The Processes of Vision
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