What is Vision?

We take our vision for granted, however, it is more than just “seeing.” Vision
is a very complex, learned process. We aren’t simply born with vision – we
create vision through development and experience.

Proper vision requires intimate and precise coordination for eye-teaming
and focus, as well as phenomenal processing for interpretation, or visual
thinking.

Vision Is
• Fundamental to learning and performance.
• Essential to executive function.
• Energy-consuming and neurologically taxing.
• By far our largest source of sensory input.

“Vision is our most dominant sense, and this is reflected in our own internal hardware, since more of the brain is devoted to processing vision than all the other senses put together.”
– Dr. Robert Ornstein, The Right Mind, 1997

 

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