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Vision, Our Brain May Be More Important Than Previously Believed
November 2, 2012 Image Credit: Photos.com  Alan McStravick for
redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online  Consciousness and
perception have long been understood as being interlinked. But
our perceptions may be related less to our sense of sight than
was previously understood.  A new study by researchers at the
University of Virginia shows that vision may be less important
to our ability to see than is the brain´s ability to process the
individual points of light we encounter into more complex
images. Their study of the fruit fly´s visual system was
recently published in the online journal Nature Communications.
In their study, they found the fruit fly larvae, with their very
simple eye structure that consists solely of 24 total
photoreceptors, provides just enough input to allow the animal´s
brain, relatively large by contrast, to assemble the visual or
light input into individual imag