Abstract
What do you do when you are playing in the park on a hot day and your parents offer you an ice cream? Most probably, you go running to them, keep your eyes on the delicious ice cream cone, and reach out to take it from them. Although this feels like the most natural thing to do, it requires the fine coordination of your different sense organs and movements. You need your eyes (sense of vision) to look at the ice cream, your arms to reach out (motor system), and your hands (sense of touch) to hold it firmly. It seems obvious that in order to be able to reach out and grasp something, we need to first be able to see it and know where it is. Surprisingly, this is not always true.
Highlights
What do you do when you are playing in the park on a hot day and your parents offer you an ice cream? Most probably, you go running to them, keep your eyes on the delicious ice cream cone, and reach out to take it from them
How is that possible? The accepted theory is that the brain of these blind people has found ways to process information about objects even though these objects are invisible to the person. This remarkable ability of the human brain has led scientists to question whether healthy people with normal vision can react to and “interact” with objects that they cannot see, i.e., that they are not aware of
Our two eyes take in the same image, send this information to the brain, and the brain processes the Interacting with invisible objects information so that we can see the image
Summary
I am interested in how the brain processes unconscious social information like eye gaze. Outside of the lab I love swimming and basically any kind of sport as well as baking
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