The Right Brain blog
How we see, explained.
Calm, science-first reading on perception and attention — what the research actually shows, graded against the evidence from Strong to Contested. The name is a metaphor; the science is real.
Peripheral Awareness: What Your Side Vision Is Actually Doing
Low acuity, crowding, and the attention-bound "useful field of view" — what your peripheral vision really does, the one training result that holds up, and where the claims overreach. Graded Strong to Contested.
Read →Gestalt Perception: How the Mind Groups What You See
Proximity, similarity, figure-ground, and edges your mind invents from nothing — a calm tour of how perception organises a scene into wholes, graded Strong to Contested, with the transfer question left open.
Read →Open vs. Focused Attention: The Science of Seeing the Whole at a Glance
Two modes of attention — narrow and open — and the perception science of ensemble coding and global precedence, graded Strong to Contested, with the transfer question left open.
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