21-11-2015 19:32 via indianexpress.com

A new study reveals how our eyes quickly spot danger

The finding shows that in humans and other primates, information from the eyes is not only sent to the visual cortex for the complex processing that allows stereoscopic vision, but also could feed directly into deep brain circuits for attention and emotion.
Humans have the best of all possible visual worlds because our full stereo vision, generating 3D pictures of its surroundings and enabling us to perform tasks like threading a needle, combines with primitive visual pathways to quickly spot d
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