Saccadic Masking, or, Your Brain is Crazy
Channel: bespectacledfez
Date: 26/07/2011

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I seem to like the word "phenomenon" this week.  Especially when paired with the word "interesting" in some way.

The quality was bad because this was filmed at night, because we had guests over and they stayed rather late, and then they left, and then at around 10:45 I went to get on the computer and I went OH CRAP IT IS MONDAY I NEED TO PUT UP A VIDEO.  But I did!  Just barely.  But this was definitely up by midnight.

Where I first learned about saccadic masking: http://www.cracked.com/article_17103_5-ways-your-brain-messing-with-your-head.html

The Wikipedia article, showing that Cracked.com isn't making stuff up, and also because it has some good related links:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking

And that thing I mentioned, about your brain trying to fill in the gap left by saccadic masking?  That would be Chronostasis:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis