Vision trumps all other senses from "summary" of Brain Rules by John Medina
Vision trumps all other senses. It is not even close. The brain is so sensitive to vision that it can detect the break in a pencil when viewed from only one meter away. No other sense has that kind of acuity. This is because half the brain's resources are devoted to processing visual information. The brain can identify images seen for just 13 milliseconds. That's all it takes. Vision is the king of the senses.
What about hearing? Hearing is also incredibly important. But the brain is not as fast at processing auditory information as it is with visual information. For instance, the brain can identify an image seen for just 13 milliseconds, but it takes 100 milliseconds to recognize a sound. In terms of processing speed, vision wins every time.
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