Blog Post #3

The two activities I did were "Seeing more than your eye does" and Contrast/Color "Illusions". In the first one I learned that your eyes have blind spots so your brain may "make things up" that you aren't really "seeing" and in the second one I learned that your brain makes "informal guesses" about what you see rather than what is actually there. Like with the colored squares that look one color but are actually another color. I learned that the brain does so much without you even knowing it. I probably would have been surprised about the colored squares if I hadn't seen things like that before. Now I will think more critically and not take everyday things for face value.

Well first of all I had no idea how much went into the brain. I knew it was complex but I didn't realize there were this many parts to it. I mean just in the neurons alone it's insane. I learned about the side of the brain that actually applies what it sees (opposite side of brain applies what it sees, the left visual Field is seen by the right side of the brain). So if you have a split brain it makes things a lot different. I also learned what all the functions are of each part of the brain. All of the functions of the brain have an impact on how we perceive information. What ever our brains tell us is how we see or feel something. Like if you would stimulate a certain part of the brain it would effect a certain part of your body. Each sense has its own sensory cortex. I sort of knew that our bodies did what ever our brains told us to I just didn't realize the complexity of it all.

I thought the video on the split brain was very cool. I didn't know for one it was possible to split the brain and two how what you see is actually seen by the opposite side of the brain. The whole thing is very interesting and I did actually try drawing the circle and a square and I couldn't do it:)