I have prepared a little longer article than usual for today,
but if you have nerves going through it (specially if you are a
kid or have one), I believe you will learn something worth
knowing. So let’s begin – take a cup of coffee, sit back in your
favorite easy chair and we are ready to start… Point of this
post is to explain how sometimes seeing means deceiving before
believing, depending on your age. There is a new study
suggesting that children and adults size up objects differently,
giving youngsters protection against a visual illusion that
bedevils their elders. This unusual triumph of kids over grown-
ups suggests that the brain’s capacity to consider the context
of visual scenes, and not just focus on parts of scenes,
develops slowly. Even at age 10, children lack adults’
attunement to visual context. Paper suggesting so was published
online November 12th in Developmental Science. This research was
done by psychologist Martin Doherty of Stirling University in
Scotland and his colleagues. You may see