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Blink and you miss it

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Why the world doesn't go black when your eyelids flicker.

Why doesn't the world go dark when we blink? Because a critical part of the brain switches off and fails to detect the blackness behind closed eyes, says a team of neuroscientists.

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Giles, J. Blink and you miss it. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news050725-4

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