So how does your brain weave such fragmentary information into a seamless movie? This remains something of a mystery. The best explanation, according to Andrew Hollingworth of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, is that your short-term and long-term visual memories retain information from previous fixations and integrate them into a here-and-now visual experience
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This explains a lot. I think I now understand why my life is more like a sit-com. The projector is broken and can't seem to retain more than a few inches of film at a time. :D)
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