Why the world doesn't go black when your eyelids flicker.
Why doesn't the world go dark when we blink? Because a critical part of the brain switches off and fails to detect the blackness behind closed eyes, says a team of neuroscientists. We blink about ten times a minute without noticing any change in what we see. Researchers had suspected that this is because the visual system is inactivated during blinking, but were not able to prove this.
Why doesn't the world go dark when we blink? Because a critical part of the brain switches off and fails to detect the blackness behind closed eyes, says a team of neuroscientists. We blink about ten times a minute without noticing any change in what we see. Researchers had suspected that this is because the visual system is inactivated during blinking, but were not able to prove this.
