“A study of people’s color awareness has shown that we see surprisingly little color in our periphery and that the brain actually constructs much of our sense of a colorful world.”
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I always thought it a bit odd when Apple bragged that its monitor could display 16.7 million colors. I had trouble with the first hundred thousand, let alone 16.7 million.
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Great article…thanks for posting it.
“…our perception of reality is based largely on what the brain “expects” us to see. It may be, therefore, a cleverly weaved network of predictions informed by what we know to be true from our past experiences.”
Ah yes…good ol’ karmic conditioning. 
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Same for sound. A friend asked (facebook) about the widest possible frequency range and listed headphones she was considering. All were outside the human capacity to hear, but she was willing to spend a lot more for it.
And what about our ‘personal filters?’ I’m ashamed to admit how many times I’ve heard what I wanted to hear and not what was said. Shows how present I’m not… 
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