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Misperceptions dependent on oculomotor activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Burkhart Fischer
Burkhart Fischer
Affiliation:
Brain Research Unit, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, D-79104, Germanybfischer@uni-freiburg.de http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/fischer/
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Abstract

Two visual phenomena are described in which oculomotor activity (saccades) changes our conscious perception: (1) some geometrical visual illusions disappear when saccades are suppressed, and (2) misperceptions occur in an antisaccade task with attentional precues. The first phenomenon shows that what we consciously perceive depends on how we look. The second phenomena indicates that a saccade itself may remain unconscious together with the accompanying changes of the retinal image.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 982 - 983
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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