Interesting program about eyesight.

[beyond]

Yes, I saw the program too and after the gorilla was not seen I mentioned to my wife: "no wonder motorists hardly ever see motorcycles, even when they are so obvious."

Vision gives so much information to the brain, that it cannot deal with all the inputs and only processes what is deemed more important in the whole picture. I learnt in the Air Force what they confirmed as well. The exact centre of vision has an actual blind spot and the brain fills in what it thinks should be there. If someone looks directly at you and pulls out anyway, they didn't actually see you. The motorcycle just happened to be right in that blind spot at the cetnre of vision.

Sobering stuff.

An example is a brick wall. All your vision see bricks but lets say there is a large hole right in the middle where your vision blind spot is on the retina exactly centred. You don's see the hole because the brain fills it in with other bricks because that is what it assumes should be there.

It's only when you look from left to right and have movement that you see that hole.

We were trained to look off centre at night time especially, when doing night time exercises on patrol, because if looking straight ahead on a starlit night, a person could almost walk directly up to you before you actually saw them.

Be careful folks.

[Ixion]

This gives me an idea for a really interesting experiment

We could prove once and for all whether toothpaste tube suits are gay

Same experiment as the gorilla one, but the audience is made up completely of frillies. And instead of a gorilla we have a sprotsbiker in a toothpaste suit.

If the gays see him, it must be cos they think he's screwable (cos he's not edible or dangerous): ergo, toothpaste suits are gay. If they don't spot him , the suits aren't gay.

Ain't science wonderful.

[MSTRS:Me]

'Tis the result of a million years of evolution.

The brains of human beings (and probably most animals) when just scanning (ie not looking for something in particular) have been conditioned to respond to only three things : things you can eat; things you can screw; and things that might eat you (ie dangers). Obvious really , when you think what life was like in the jungle a million years ago.

Anything else is just bypassed as "background" - trees and such like.

Motorists don't fail to see bikes and pedestrians because theyr're small. It's because we're not considered edible screwable or dangerous.

Which is why they'll see the mobster on his Harley, but not the sprotsbiker.

So - which category d'ya want to fit into - edible screwable or dangerous?

Interesting take on things. However, if we are hit then we're f..ked. Could it be we'd have a case to claim 'rape'? After all, it is unlikely that we would give consent to be hit. And for a lot of people, their car is a penis extension.

[klingon]

Interesting take on things. However, if we are hit then we're f..ked. Could it be we'd have a case to claim 'rape'? After all, it is unlikely that we would give consent to be hit. And for a lot of people, their car is a penis extension.

Ha ha ha that's funny

I watched that show, with my boyfriend who had just got in after a day of riding. At one point he said "did you see that? and I said "what?" and he said "the yeti that just walked past in the background!" Of course I thought he was totally nuts until the end of the show - then I thought he was pretty smart! (Don't you EVER tell him that.)

So here's what I'd like to do: get a bunch of people and do that experiment again, but this time find out who had ridden a motorbike (or pushbike) to the venue and find out if their brains are on 'high alert' for all the unexpected stuff.

There was another experiment where they tracked people's eye movements. I wonder whether bikers' eyes flick around the room more than your average person? Or maybe they just go straight to the cleavage like evedryone else's

[TwoSeven]

I got the impression they were just basic limbic system tests. Always find them interesting to watch tho.

[Ixion]

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There was another experiment where they tracked people's eye movements. I wonder whether bikers' eyes flick around the room more than your average person? Or maybe they just go straight to the cleavage like evedryone else's

See, like I said.Bikers are the perfect example of the highly tuned observant primate. Things y'can eat (pies and beer), things that can eat you (cages, cops, gravel ad blurdy infinitum) ; and things y (maybe, never lose hope) can screw.

[Motu]

There was another experiment where they tracked people's eye movements. I wonder whether bikers' eyes flick around the room more than your average person? :

Back in the good old days when I rode a lot harder than I do now,when I got off the bike my vision would jerk like someone was flicking through a slide show...I would see things in clear ''bites'',but nothing inbetween.It was a bit freaky until things settled down.I always reckoned I was taking in as much detail as I could when I looked at something,and my eyes are constantly scanning as I ride.

[paturoa]

We were trained to look off centre at night time especially, when doing night time exercises on patrol, because if looking straight ahead on a starlit night, a person could almost walk directly up to you before you actually saw them.

In the centre of your vision are mostly colour receptors (rods or cones can't remember which is which) towards the edge of your vision is the much more light sensitive black and white thingies.

So at night dont look straight at what you want to see, look slight off to one side for more sensitive vision.

Try this, get your better half to slowly move a coloured object from behind (that you don't know what colour it is) and see how long it takes for you to work out what colour it is.

[scumdog]

[QUOTE=klingon]Ha ha ha that's funny

Or maybe they just go straight to the cleavage like evedryone else's [/QUOTE

Straight to the cleavage every time!

[Insanity_rules]

Didn't se it but it raises a few good points. I've had a few cages pull out on me and look shocked as I hit the horn. One guy was litterally dead in front of me and didn't see me.

[Squeak the Rat]

Didn't se it but it raises a few good points. I've had a few cages pull out on me and look shocked as I hit the horn. One guy was litterally dead in front of me and didn't see me.

Well he wouldn't see you if he was dead......