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Old 06-01-2011, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Scientists at the University of Southern California have pinned down the region of the brain responsible for a key survival trait: our ability to comprehend a scene—even one never previously encountered—in a fraction of a second...

...The brain's ability to understand a whole scene on the fly "gives us an enormous edge on an organism that would have to look at objects one by one and slowly add them up," Biederman said. What's more, the interaction of objects in a scene actually allows the brain to identify those objects faster than if they were not interacting...
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Old 06-01-2011, 03:15 PM
 
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I used that function to instantly recognize the missing "n" in functio.
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Old 06-01-2011, 04:17 PM
 
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I used that function to instantly recognize the missing "n" in functio.
By the way, what you said, reminded me of how you can still read something with all kinds of letters mixed up, except the first and last letters. That would make a nice, simple little code if somebody who didn't know English very well.
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