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> I'm also reminded of the way babies are born seeing upside down Do you have a source for that?
by raldi 14y ago
> I'm also reminded of the way babies are born seeing upside down
Do you have a source for that?
- Houshalter 14y agoI believe he means that the light receptors on your eye are inverted like this: http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images_2/digital_pinhole/pinhole_geometry_2.gif http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images_2/digital_... But the idea that people "see upside-down" is a common misconception. How the inputs map onto your brain spatially don't really matter. Well they do, but it doesn't matter if it's inverted or not because your brain learns (or likely is hardwired biologically) to map signals that come from the bottom to being located at "top" and signals that come from the top as "bottom".
- andrewflnr 14y agoRight, it's precisely that learning I'm interested in. I could well be wrong in that specific example. IIRC, I first got that from one of those "science" books for kids.
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- jleader 14y agoI suspect the GP is thinking of this or similar studies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_adaptation#Experimental_support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_adaptation#Experimen...