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Your Eyes Aren’t Just for Seeing. They’re a Gateway to Learning.

This short note is working out why vision receives so much of the brain’s processing capacity, and what that means for instructional designers when deciding what learners see and process.

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I’ve been thinking about the eyes a little differently lately.
Not just as something we use to see…

But as a gateway.

A gateway through which an enormous amount of information reaches the brain.

Think about your day.
Reading.

Watching.

Recognising faces.

Driving.

Reading signs.

Walking around your environment.

So much of what we do depends on what we see.
And that got me thinking about something Clark Quinn said:

“Sight has been allocated the largest amount of brain processing.”

That makes a lot more sense to me when I think about the brain this way:

If one department in a company receives far more visitors than every other department, wouldn’t you logically expect that department to have more people working there?

Our visual system is that busy department.


It is constantly receiving information.

And the brain has to decide:

What can be ignored?

What should be processed further?

As an instructional designer, that makes me look at visual design a little differently.

Because when I decide what learners will see…
I’m also influencing what the brain has to process.

So I wanted to explore this idea a little further. (which will hopefully be in my next post.)

The eyes as a gateway to learning. 👁️

I put my thoughts together in this short PDF.

📎 Sharing it below.
i hope you find it useful.



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