A new research has challenged the long held belief that man is superior among all species in all cognitive functions. The research that has been conducted by Japanese scientists found that young Chimpanzees can do much better in memory tests than humans. The scientists say that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals […]
Persistence of Vision and Motion Picture
More than fifteen years ago, a number of writers pointed out, in detailed studies, that the long-quoted mechanism for motion perception in cinema, ‘persistence of vision’, an effect usually attributed to a ‘defect’ of the eye, (or in some accounts the ‘eye-brain combination’), was an archaic concept long left behind by psychologists and physiologists specialising […]