"When observing a fly buzzing around the room, we should have the
impression that it is not the fly, but rather the space that lies behind
it that is moving," starts the
Medical News Today post. "After all, the fly is always fixed in our central
point of view. But how does the brain convey the impression of a fly in
motion in a motionless field? With the help of functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) scientists from the Werner Reichardt Centre for
Integrative Neuroscience and the Max Planck Institute for Biological
Cybernetics in Tübingen have identified two areas of the brain that
compare the movements of the eye with the visual movements cast onto the
retina so as to correctly perceive objects in motion."
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