Perception: transient disruptions to neural space-time.
How vision operates efficiently in the face of continuous shifts of gaze remains poorly understood. Recent studies show that saccades cause dramatic, but transient, changes in the spatial and also temporal tuning of cells in many visual areas, which may underly the perceptual compression of space and time, and serve to counteract the effects of the saccades and maintain visual stability.
Burr
David
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Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy. dave@in.cnr.it
Morrone
Concetta
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D000818:Animals; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*