{"id":162695,"date":"2023-04-23T12:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-does-our-brain-create-a-coherent-image-when-we-look-at-different-objects"},"modified":"2023-04-23T12:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:26:23","slug":"how-does-our-brain-create-a-coherent-image-when-we-look-at-different-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-does-our-brain-create-a-coherent-image-when-we-look-at-different-objects","title":{"rendered":"How does our brain create a coherent image when we look at different objects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-our-brain-create-a-coherent-image-when-we-look-at-different-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we look at something, the different properties of the image are processed in different brain regions. But how does our brain make a coherent image out of such a fragmented representation? A new review by Pieter Roelfsema sheds light on two existing hypotheses in the field.<\/p>\n<p>When we open our eyes, we immediately see what is there. The efficiency of our vision is a remarkable achievement of evolution. The introspective ease with which we perceive our visual surroundings masks the sophisticated machinery in our brain that supports <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/visual+perception\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visual perception<\/a>. The image that we see is rapidly analyzed by a complex hierarchy of cortical and subcortical brain regions.<\/p>\n<p><i>Neuron<\/i>s in low level brain regions extract basic features such as line orientation, depth and the color of local image elements. They send the information to several mid-level brain areas. <i>Neuron<\/i>s in these areas code for other features, such as motion direction, color and shape fragments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we look at something, the different properties of the image are processed in different brain regions. But how does our brain make a coherent image out of such a fragmented representation? A new review by Pieter Roelfsema sheds light on two existing hypotheses in the field. When we open our eyes, we immediately see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162695","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}