NewsThis article is in the news archive. How to tell a missile from a pylon: a tale of two corticesDuring the Second World War, analysts pored over stereoscopic aerial reconnaissance photographs, becoming experts at identifying potential targets from camouflaged or visually noisy backgrounds, and then at distinguishing between V-weapons and innocuous electricity pylons.
Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified the two regions of the brain involved in these two tasks – picking out objects from background noise and identifying the specific objects – and have shown why training people to recognise specific objects improves their ability to pick out objects. Adapted from University of Cambridge News. Posted on 16/10/2014 Further newsGo to the news index page. |