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Spatial localization precedes temporal determination in visual perception.

Junghyun Park·Madeleine Schlag-Rey·John Schlag
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Abstract

The temporal order of two spots of light successively appearing in the dark, just before a saccade, influences their perceived spatial relation. Both spots are mislocalized in the saccade direction--the second more so than the first--because mislocalization grows as time elapses from stimulus to saccade onset. On the other hand, the perceived order of the two spots may be altered if the second spot is at the focus of spatial attention. How would these illusory perceptions of space and time interact when they are brought to play together? Could they be independent or could one perception depend on the other? Here we show that perceived location of stimuli is not affected by illusory temporal order, whereas perceived temporal order is affected by misperceived location. The results suggest that the brain processes spatial location of visual stimuli before processing their temporal order.

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AttentionHumansOptical IllusionsPsychophysicsSaccadesSpace PerceptionTimeVisual PerceptionJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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Junghyun Park, Madeleine Schlag-Rey, John Schlag. 2003. Spatial localization precedes temporal determination in visual perception.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0042-6989(03)00217-7

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