Biases in the perceived timing of perisaccadic perceptual and motor events

Kielan Yarrow, Louise Emma Whiteley, Patrick Haggard, John C Rothwell

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    Abstract

    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

    Keywords

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

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