braaaains

[wispfox]

why is it that it's much easier to compare things which are side-by-side than higher or lower on a page? separate pages are easier side-by-side than vertically, too. why? Or is it just me? there's two reasons I print things. this, and the ability to highlight/take notes.

this brought to you by my irritation that chronic lack of sleep, mild illness, mild depression, and being overwhelmed are not, for me, easily distinguishable states (and being interrlated and thus any tending to worsten the others _does not help_!). I think I am all three except depressed right now.

but there are cold meds which I will take at bedtime, not midnight.

and then maybe tomorrow having things I need to do won't seem like a horrible weight on my very existence!

Comments

[corivax.livejournal.com]

Neurologically, primates are better at horizontal eye movement than vertical eye movement. If you are trying to move your eyes horizontally, there will be less under/overshooting and tiny correctional shifts (saccades). It is also easier to move eyes down than up. I have no idea why. :) I would guess, though, that evolutionarily it has been more important to us to watching things moving along the ground than to watching things moving up and down in the air.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm! I've noticed this when idly dragging my eyes along horizontal and vertical lines in my surroundings. It's much smoother horizontally than vertically.

Neat!