Akinetopsia
- Published23 Oct 2018
- Reviewed23 Oct 2018
- Source BrainFacts/SfN
If you’re crossing the street and see a car barreling toward you, you have the ability to hop out of the way. A rare brain disorder, however, makes perceiving the car’s movement impossible. People with akinetopsia, or “motion blindness,” instead see the world as a series of freeze-frame images.
This video is from the 2018 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
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