In my earlier post I was saying that even though we have two eyes we cannot use them independently. If our eyes cannot move independent of each other, what is it that is holding them? For both the eyes to see the same object either our brain has to be doing some kind of correlation between the images and providing feedback to the eyes asking them to position on a common point or the eyes themselves know where they have to be pointing. I mean, either it is a process of learning or it comes along when our system (life) is booted.
This is actually a debatable topic. I tried to find an answer to this by observing it in small babies, but haven’t been successful enough to conclude. Anyway I have some other observations to share. Depth perception does not produce an interrupt in the brain like the way sound, motion or color do. During the initial learning stages it is interrupt that matters because you need to draw the attention of a baby’s brain to observe something, so depth takes a back seat. I term it is an interrupt because it immediately brings your brain into action. In order to achieve this you generally tend to get some colorful toys that make interesting sounds and wafture in front of a baby. So how does it work?
Sound, as you know definitely produces interrupt in your brain, which is why you use an alarm to wake up in the morning. Colorful objects produce high contrast images in your brain which are like step and impulse functions; strong signals that your brain becomes interested in. Now you know what kind of dress to wear to draw the attention of everyone around you!
If you remember awakening a day dreamer by wavering you hand in front of him, you know how motion produces interrupt in your brain. This is actually because of the way our visual processor and retina are designed, which I will come to shortly. So next time you are buying a toy think about these.Secondly why interrupt matters is because the new born baby’s brain is like a formatted hard disk, ready to accept data, but has nothing. When it doesn’t understand anything around it, there is absolutely no meaning in perceiving depth. Whether it perceives or not, it is just going to be a colored patch and nothing else. Again it wouldn’t know which color it is! So interrupts help it to make sense of its surrounding, and when that is done depth and motion help it to segment the objects from one another to form its database.
This is actually a debatable topic. I tried to find an answer to this by observing it in small babies, but haven’t been successful enough to conclude. Anyway I have some other observations to share. Depth perception does not produce an interrupt in the brain like the way sound, motion or color do. During the initial learning stages it is interrupt that matters because you need to draw the attention of a baby’s brain to observe something, so depth takes a back seat. I term it is an interrupt because it immediately brings your brain into action. In order to achieve this you generally tend to get some colorful toys that make interesting sounds and wafture in front of a baby. So how does it work?
Sound, as you know definitely produces interrupt in your brain, which is why you use an alarm to wake up in the morning. Colorful objects produce high contrast images in your brain which are like step and impulse functions; strong signals that your brain becomes interested in. Now you know what kind of dress to wear to draw the attention of everyone around you!
If you remember awakening a day dreamer by wavering you hand in front of him, you know how motion produces interrupt in your brain. This is actually because of the way our visual processor and retina are designed, which I will come to shortly. So next time you are buying a toy think about these.Secondly why interrupt matters is because the new born baby’s brain is like a formatted hard disk, ready to accept data, but has nothing. When it doesn’t understand anything around it, there is absolutely no meaning in perceiving depth. Whether it perceives or not, it is just going to be a colored patch and nothing else. Again it wouldn’t know which color it is! So interrupts help it to make sense of its surrounding, and when that is done depth and motion help it to segment the objects from one another to form its database.
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