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Vision: Elementary and Complex Visual Processing

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Vision directs our attention and attention, in turn, is nature’s answer to massive sensory input that our brains are subjected to. Our senses gather information continuously and hence we are subject to sensory overload. The human sensory system receives ~11 million bits of information per second; yet it has been estimated that we can only process ~16–50 bits per second (0.0002 %). Countless decisions are being made by our brain on a continuous basis, mostly at a nonconscious level from which is derived the very rough estimate that we process only 5 % at the conscious level and 95 % at the nonconscious level [1, 2]. At another level and another approximation, about half of the cortex is concerned with vision and vision usually overrides other senses when there are conflicting inputs. The evolution of our visual system, its predominance over the other senses, and the ability to process most sensory information nonconsciously can only be explained and understood in terms of paleoneurological or evolutionary biological and neuroscientific process.

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