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Your brain may live up to 15 seconds in the past, study finds
A picture of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner, also called PET scan, is seen on a screen on January 9, 2019. (Credit: FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images) BERKELEY, Calif. - A new study shows that the human brain may actually live up to 15 seconds in the past.Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Aberdeen discovered that the brain shows images from seconds in the past, instead of an updated real-time picture.According to the study, published in Science Advances, researchers analyzed the mechanism of "change blindness," which is when people fail to notice small changes over time."The brain automatically smooths our visual input over time.