{"id":186627,"date":"2024-04-02T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-discover-speed-of-visual-perception-ranges-widely-in-humans"},"modified":"2024-04-02T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:27:25","slug":"scientists-discover-speed-of-visual-perception-ranges-widely-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-discover-speed-of-visual-perception-ranges-widely-in-humans","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover speed of visual perception ranges widely in humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-speed-of-visual-perception-ranges-widely-in-humans3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it experiment, researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that individuals differ widely in the rate at which they perceive visual signals. Some people perceive a rapidly changing visual cue at frequencies that others cannot, which means some access more visual information per timeframe than others.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery suggests some people have an innate advantage in certain settings where response time is crucial, such as in ball sports, or in competitive gaming.<\/p>\n<p>The rate with which we perceive the world is known as our \u201ctemporal resolution,\u201d and in many ways it is similar to the refresh rate of a computer monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it experiment, researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that individuals differ widely in the rate at which they perceive visual signals. Some people perceive a rapidly changing visual cue at frequencies that others cannot, which means some access more visual information per timeframe than others. This discovery suggests some people have an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186627","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}