Kirsten Dalrymple, Ph.D., a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Child Development’s ELAB was interviewed for a BBC article that examined how individuals perceive the world.

The article profiled a woman who was diagnosed with the neurological disorder simultanagnosia, or the inability to see more than one object at a time.

As part of the article, Dalrymple discussed examples of how the brain processes information unconsciously, including blindsight, when a blind individual can navigate an obstacle course more accurately than chance alone, and “attentional windows,” or what an individual is aware of around them at a given time.