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| Title |
The Flash-Lag, Fröhlich and Related Motion Illusions Are Natural Consequences of Discrete Sampling in the Visual System
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01227 |
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| Authors |
Keith A. Schneider |
| 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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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 20 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 5 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 10% |
| Professor | 2 | 10% |
| Other | 4 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 9 | 45% |
| Psychology | 5 | 25% |
| Sports and Recreations | 1 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 2 | 10% |
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