/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5473957]

I once heard of an experiment conducted in a certain university(whose name escapes me) about participants who would wear goggles 24/7, that would simply flip the image upside down. After a while, their brains adjusted by re flipping the image, so that what they would no longer see upside down, while wearing the goggles.

Is there a source online for this study? Is it made up?

[Anonymous No.5473959]

bump for interest, I heard about this too

[Anonymous No.5473964]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_adaptation
check this, especially the Experimental Support part.

[Anonymous No.5473974]

>>5473964
Thank you sir.

[Anonymous No.5473985]

Our eye has a lens that focuses the image onto our retina. Surprisingly, because the image of the world goes through a lens onto our retina, the image upon reaching the retina is upside down. Upside down! The reason we don't see the world upside down is because our brain says, hey, this doesn't make any sense and it would be better to flip everything around, so it does.

Enter the goggles. Our brain is used to flipping everything upside down, automatically. Now that everything is upside down again, the brain says, now I have to revert to doing nothing. And he does. Now when you take the goggles off, the process repeats - images are upside down, and it has to flip around again.

Anyway, it's true. The fact is the brain is actually flipping the image upside down at this very moment. The brain reverting so the image would no longer be upside down from the goggles is actually the brain doing less work than it is now

[Anonymous No.5473999]

>>5473985
If the brain would in fact be doing less work, would that mean you can concentrate better at other things? Or is it so used to flipping the image that it'll take extra focus to not flip the image?

[Anonymous No.5474023]

>>5473985
It's simple if explained that way but for a 19th century scientist, who assumes ignorance with dealing with the subject, it is possible that we may have evolved to reverse the retina effect anatomically by the way the eyes connect to the brain, as oppose to neurological image processing.

If the prior was the case, the brain would probably not adapt to flipped image very well.

[Anonymous No.5474029]

It might be interesting to give one of these glasses to a newborn baby and see a few decades later if it still can flip the image around. That way, one could see whether the orientation of an image does not matter and the brain can interpret any structured information it gets (make the glasses invert all the colors it sends through?), or if there really is an up and down of the concious point of view and the brain would be unable to (at least in a timespan comparable to that OPs test subjects needed) adjust to its apparently first flipping.

[Anonymous No.5474047]

>>5474029
The colors would probably not be inverted. It is not necessary that we consciously perceive a particular color pallet attached to the visual spectrum. It is possible that even now people do no perceive the same colors. However colors are attached to emotions. I wonder if that would change if you reverse the spectrum.

[Anonymous No.5474064]

>>5473957
Are you from Montreal ?

[Anonymous No.5474069]

>>5474064
No.

Why do you ask?

[Anonymous No.5474123]

>>5474029
>invert colours
Is a bad method, you screw up contrast and brighness that way. Some of the colour mapping could probably be corrected for.

[Anonymous No.5474145]

>>5474123
Glasses that give the image of the right eye to the left eye and vice versa? Or that reverse the image horizontally instead of vertically? (Or that show you the recordings of a camera on the back of your head, pointing backwards. Heh)

[Anonymous No.5474192]

>>5474145
The optic nerve configuration means that there's already a crossing over of half the field to their other side.
As for cameras at the back of the head: this can be used to demonstrate out-of-body illusions in short experimental makeups where a camera and person outside your head mimics the movements and sensory stimuli that you're doing yourself.

It is even induceable with just a plain mirror(and a few joints) but much less reliable and more time consuming, the latter is a personal anecdote though so disregard it.