Michele Rucci

Apr 5, 2024 | pnas.org | Janis Intoy |Michele Rucci |Xinyi Liu |Martin Jones

Every few seconds, our visual world disappears behind a thin fold of skin that maintains the tear film on the corneal surface and, for more than a tenth of a second, blocks light from falling onto the retina. “Blink and you miss it” is a common idiom that captures how we have conceived of those moments in time. A new study (1) now turns this idea on its head, showing that the transients caused by blinks effectively enhance visual contrast sensitivity.

Jun 21, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Janis Intoy |Michele Rucci

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