Neural mechanisms for timing visual events are spatially selective in real-world coordinates.
It is generally assumed that perceptual events are timed by a centralized supramodal clock. This study challenges this notion in humans by providing clear evidence that visual events of subsecond duration are timed by visual neural mechanisms with spatially circumscribed receptive fields, localized in real-world, rather than retinal, coordinates.
Burr
David
D
Department of Psychology, Università Degli Studi di Firenze, via S. Nicolò 89, Florence, Italy. dave@in.cnr.it
Tozzi
Arianna
A
Morrone
M Concetta
MC
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011336:Probability; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*