Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hey vsauce Michael here and today I've got a brand new episode of this Vauce lean back you can click this annotation or the link at the top of the description to start it and then you can just lean back and the autoplay playlist bring the knowledge right to your brain as you already know it doesn't really work on mobile phones yet so we can tell you in a better position to lead back in the meantime let's get Saccadic no not psychotic, saccadic referring to what is known as a saccad the quick movements that are eyeballs make me move from one object to the other As you may remember from a previous lean back some animals like most birds cannot move their eyeballs into the look from one thing to another they have to head really really fast and keep the world from being blurry when their bodies new they have to keep their heads completely stationary but here's the lead things about saccad when our eyes move there's a quick blur between one destination and the other and that blur is completely incomprehensible to our brain so what are visual system does is erase it from our memory and instead replace that little fraction of a second that the eye moved during with the very next thing we see. This leads to a really amazing allusion called the stopped clock allusion you may have noticed this before if you've ever been in a room with the clock with the second game like in a classroom starting your eyes back and forth waiting for class to be out now here is what happens right when you don't your eyes to the clock that very first second that very first movement of the second hand that happens when your eyes reach it seems longer in every other second afterwards look away from the clock and then look and that first second was seen to link as if time itself is stop the reason for that is that you're brain replaces the time it took for your eyes the goal from here to the clock with the image of the first thing you saw which with second-hand and so that little fraction of a second of time is added to link the time it takes second-hand to move what's really mind-blowing about this entire fact as it happens all the time all day as you look around the world from one point to another that little fraction of a second that your eyeball was moving is lost and your brain just replace it with a very next thing you see it might just be a tiny tiny mini time but over the course of an entire day those little fraction in a second add up to almost 40 minutes 40 minutes of everyday that you're awake are lost because of eyeballs move and that's always thanks for watching so what are you waiting for picture to start the leaf back or click the link at the top of this video
A2 US clock fraction lean link brain move STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION 1196 82 Vivian Lam posted on 2014/07/31 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary