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Scientists show how the brain's estimate of Newton's laws affects perceived object stability

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany recently reported that although the physical laws governing object stability are reasonably well represented by the brain, you are a better judge of how objects fall when you are upright than when you lay on your side.

Read more http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-04/plos-ssh042611.php

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