The human brain loves virtual information more

people shouldn't always trust their eyes. Human vision also has blind spots, which people usually don't notice because the human brain fills in the details. People are more likely to believe in "virtual sights" than in reality, according to new research.
t show us the real world," says Christopher Teufel of Cardiff University in the UK, who was not involved in the study. It will be 'polluted' by what we already have in mind. The
is caused by the area of light-free cells behind each eye. Because two eyes can complement each other, people usually don't notice these blind spots. But if one eye's vision is blurred, the human brain automatically replenishes the missing information based on assumptions.
but do people know that supplemental visual information is not as reliable as real visual information? To find out, Benedikt Ehinger and colleagues at the University of Osnabruck in Germany recruited 100 participants to look at a vertical striped circle drawing with a horizontal stripe patch on it.
researchers placed the painting in a specific position, allowing horizontal stripes to fall into the observer's visual blind spot. As a result, in the eyes of the observer, the painting appears to have no patches, and the vertical stripes are coherent. Next to the painting is another vertical stripe circle with no patches. The researchers asked participants to choose which pair of circles to draw more continuously.
Ehinger team expects people to choose more of a painting without a patch. "It seems more logical to choose a painting that can see all the information." He said.
, 65 percent chose a painting with a patch. "It's beyond our imagination." "The brain believes more in the information it generates than in the outside world," Ehinger said. This
with cognitive bias theory, says Einger, a research group. When people have strong beliefs, they may ignore other evidence to the contrary. "I've told a lot of people about it, but they say they don't feel it." He said.
other cognitive changes, in addition to visual blind spots, says Teufel, a former U.S. official. For example, if a song is converted to MIDI format and stripped of sound, people can also "hear" lyrics that don't exist. (Source: Science Network Tang 1 Dust)