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Your brain saves energy by ignoring repetition.
Neural activity in the sensory cortex often shows a statistically significant decrease on average when an image is repeated compared to its initial presentation.
Change 'every time' to 'on average across trials'.
You are physically wired to stop seeing what you look at every day.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Grill-Spector et al., 2006, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- What the check found
- While Grill-Spector et al. (2006) does discuss repetition suppression, the claim's use of 'every time' implies a fixed, universal rule rather than a statistical trend in neural population dynamics.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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