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What’s Behind Your Eyer

Our eyes act like a camera. They capture images from the world around us. The images can be individual objects or the features of the setting we are located in. Our eyes also help us to identify the vivid color of an object—a rose or an apple, for instance—from the surrounding background. Looking at the rose, we can guess how far it is from us. Our eyes can also discern the texture and other features of the flower. We do all this automatically, without thinking about it.

More Than a Camera

But a neuroscientist

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