Vision: when the clock appears to stop.
Eye movements produce a temporary loss of visual sensitivity known as saccadic suppression, and a distortion of space perception known as saccadic compression. A new study has reported a seemingly related phenomenon --chronostasis---in which one's perception of time also undergoes an illusory distortion during rapid movements of the eyes.
Thilo
Kai V
KV
University Laboratory of Physiology, Parks Road, OX1 3PT, Oxford, UK. kai.thilo@physiol.ox.ac.uk
Walsh
Vincent
V
D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D013995:Time; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*