Biases in the perceived timing of perisaccadic perceptual and motor events

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Subjects typically experience the temporal interval immediately following a saccade as longer than a comparable control interval. One explanation of this effect is that the brain antedates the perceptual onset of a saccade target to around the time of saccade initiation. This could explain the apparent continuity of visual perception across eye movements. This antedating account was tested in three experiments in which subjects made saccades of differing extents and then judged either the duration or the temporal order of key events. Postsaccadic stimuli underwent subjective temporal lengthening and had early perceived onsets. A temporally advanced awareness of saccade completion was also found, independently of antedating effects. These results provide convergent evidence supporting antedating and differentiating it from other temporal biases.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAttention, Perception & Psychophysics
Volume68
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)1217-26
Number of pages10
ISSN1943-3921
Publication statusPublished - 2006

    Research areas

  • Adult, Attention, Auditory Perception, Awareness, Discrimination Learning, Female, Humans, Illusions, Male, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Perceptual Distortion, Saccades, Time Perception

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