Blog #3

The first activity I did was takiong time to think. It was an activity that timed me on my reaction to a question and the time it took me to answer the question. The other activity I did was seeing more than your eye does, which, I closed my left eye staring at a picture while marking my blind spot.
I learned many new things from these activities. I learned that for many people reaction ti,e to questions differs causing slower response. I also learned when I was timed it included the time for the input signal to be transduced into neural activity, the time for neural signals to move from sensory structure to muscle involved in action and the time for muslce contractions. For the other activity I learned that what you don't see with one eye you see with the other. Because of that it explains why you have less of a blind spot when both eyes are opened.
I was surprised to find out that the moment you see, feel, taste, hear, or smell something it goes through your neural signals and then to muscles involved and then the contractions which transfer into your brain causing your respones to the intital reaction. You would think that listening to all the steps that it would take forever but really it takes a matter of 3 seconds at the most for everything to go through.
These two activities apply to my everyday life because I am always using my senses and never am I not reacting to something that happens in life. I am also always using my eyes and looking around for my blindspot. People don't realize that they use their senses more than is known. Your brain is consistently thinking and reacting to everything that you do. Your eyes are always wondering around from area to area so you don't miss anything.
I changes how I use my senses and every time I do use a sense I am thinking about how long it is taking me to process and voice an answer. I am also thinking about what it would be like to only have one eye or be blind. I am always looking around noticing new things and if I couldn't see I would go crazy.
I have learned also that Wilhelm Wundt continued studies for the time to think in his labortary. I knew who he was but never would have guessed he played a part in studing the time it takes us to responed and think. I also learned that the front of the eye acts like a camera lens, differently directing light rays from each point in space so as to create on the back of the eye a picture of the world. The picture then falls on a sheet of photoreceptors specialized brain cells. Which both make me think differently about the brain because one i learned something and two the brain is helpping the eye with putting a picture in my head.
"Man with Two Brains" was a very interesting video. I don't know how I could handle being able to do two things at once. The only thing that I would not be able to handle is not being able to put two things together which I am still wondering how he shouldn't be able to. He has two brains and they are connected if he sees one thing and sees another he should be able to put the two together without a problem. A person with one brain can do that. I also find it very interesting how one part of the brain is verbal and the other is more graphical.