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Transient signals per se do not disrupt the flash-lag effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Piers D. Howe ,
Todd S. Horowitz  and
Jeremy M. Wolfe
Piers D. Howe
Affiliation:
Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139. [email protected]@[email protected]://search.bwh.harvard.edu/
Todd S. Horowitz
Affiliation:
Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139. [email protected]@[email protected]://search.bwh.harvard.edu/
Jeremy M. Wolfe
Affiliation:
Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139. [email protected]@[email protected]://search.bwh.harvard.edu/
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Abstract

Nijhawan's theory rests on the assumption that transient signals compete with predictive signals to generate the visual percept. We describe experiments that show that this assumption is incorrect. Our results are consistent with an alternative theory that proposes that vision is instead postdictive, in that the perception of an event is influenced by occurrences after the event.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 206
Copyright
Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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