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100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People
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100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People

by Susan Weinschenk
May 2012
Beginner
272 pages
6h 8m
English
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48. Peripheral Vision is Used More than Central Vision to Get the Gist of What is Going On

You have two types of vision: central and peripheral. Central vision is what you use to look at things directly and to see details. Peripheral vision encompasses the rest of the visual field—areas that are visible but that you’re not looking at directly. Being able to see things out of the corner of your eye is certainly useful, but new research from Kansas State University shows that peripheral vision is more important in understanding the world around us than most people realize. It seems that we get information on what type of scene we’re looking at from our peripheral vision.

Adam Larson and Lester Loschky (2009) showed people photographs of common ...

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