{"id":129552,"date":"2021-10-26T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-pupil-in-your-eye-can-perceive-numerical-information-not-just-light"},"modified":"2021-10-26T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:22:37","slug":"the-pupil-in-your-eye-can-perceive-numerical-information-not-just-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-pupil-in-your-eye-can-perceive-numerical-information-not-just-light","title":{"rendered":"The Pupil in Your Eye Can Perceive Numerical Information, Not Just Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-pupil-in-your-eye-can-perceive-numerical-information-not-just-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might know that the size of the pupils in our eyes changes depending on how well lit our environment is, but there\u2019s more to the story: Scientists have now discovered that the pupil also shifts in size depending on how many objects we\u2019re observing.<\/p>\n<p>The more objects in a scene, the bigger the pupil grows, as if to better accommodate everything that it has to look at. This \u201cperceived numerosity\u201d is a simple and automatic reflex, the new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers observed the pupil sizes of 16 participants while they looked at pictures of dots. In some of the pictures, the dots were linked together in dumbbell shapes \u2013 creating the illusion that there were fewer objects \u2013 and pupil size then shrank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might know that the size of the pupils in our eyes changes depending on how well lit our environment is, but there\u2019s more to the story: Scientists have now discovered that the pupil also shifts in size depending on how many objects we\u2019re observing. The more objects in a scene, the bigger the pupil [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}