ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
The Flash-Lag, Fröhlich and Related Motion Illusions Are Natural Consequences of Discrete Sampling in the Visual System.
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- Regaining Visual Acuity Does Not Restore Motion Extrapolation Deficits in Amblyopia.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- No Evidence That Resting-State Individual Alpha Frequency Represents a Mechanism Underlying Motion-Position Illusions.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- When visual attention is divided in the flash-lag effect.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Procedure for extracting temporal structure embedded within psychophysical data.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Exploring the extent to which shared mechanisms contribute to motion-position illusions.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Visual Responses to Moving and Flashed Stimuli of Neurons in Domestic Pigeon (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Rhythms in cognition: The evidence revisited.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- A guideline for linking brain wave findings to the various aspects of discrete perception.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Review
- Color Modulates Feature Integration.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Motion Extrapolation in Visual Processing: Lessons from 25 Years of Flash-Lag Debate.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Review
- Linking Pathological Oscillations With Altered Temporal Processing in Parkinsons Disease: Neurophysiological Mechanisms and Implications for Neuromodulation.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
- Visual Entrainment at 10 Hz Causes Periodic Modulation of the Flash Lag Illusion.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Individual alpha frequency predicts the sensitivity of time perception.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
The Fröhlich effect and flash-lag effect, in which moving objects appear advanced along their trajectories compared to their actual positions, have defied a simple and consistent explanation. Here, I show that these illusions can be understood as a natural consequence of temporal compression in the human visual system. Discrete sampling at some stage of sensory perception has long been considered, and if it were true, it would necessarily lead to these illusions of motion. I show that the discrete perception hypothesis, with a single free parameter, the perceptual moment or sampling rate, can quantitatively explain all of the scenarios of the Fröhlich and flash-lag effect. I interpret discrete perception as the implementation of data compression in the brain, and our conscious perception as the reconstruction of the compressed input.
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