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Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept?
We experience the world as a seamless stream of percepts. However, intriguing illusions and recent experiments suggest that the world is not continuously translated into conscious perception. Instead, perception seems to operate in a discrete manner, just like movies appear continuous although they...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27070777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002433 |
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author | Herzog, Michael H. Kammer, Thomas Scharnowski, Frank |
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description | We experience the world as a seamless stream of percepts. However, intriguing illusions and recent experiments suggest that the world is not continuously translated into conscious perception. Instead, perception seems to operate in a discrete manner, just like movies appear continuous although they consist of discrete images. To explain how the temporal resolution of human vision can be fast compared to sluggish conscious perception, we propose a novel conceptual framework in which features of objects, such as their color, are quasi-continuously and unconsciously analyzed with high temporal resolution. Like other features, temporal features, such as duration, are coded as quantitative labels. When unconscious processing is “completed,” all features are simultaneously rendered conscious at discrete moments in time, sometimes even hundreds of milliseconds after stimuli were presented. |
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spelling | pubmed-48291562016-04-22 Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept? Herzog, Michael H. Kammer, Thomas Scharnowski, Frank PLoS Biol Unsolved Mystery We experience the world as a seamless stream of percepts. However, intriguing illusions and recent experiments suggest that the world is not continuously translated into conscious perception. Instead, perception seems to operate in a discrete manner, just like movies appear continuous although they consist of discrete images. To explain how the temporal resolution of human vision can be fast compared to sluggish conscious perception, we propose a novel conceptual framework in which features of objects, such as their color, are quasi-continuously and unconsciously analyzed with high temporal resolution. Like other features, temporal features, such as duration, are coded as quantitative labels. When unconscious processing is “completed,” all features are simultaneously rendered conscious at discrete moments in time, sometimes even hundreds of milliseconds after stimuli were presented. Public Library of Science 2016-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4829156/ /pubmed/27070777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002433 Text en © 2016 Herzog et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Unsolved Mystery Herzog, Michael H. Kammer, Thomas Scharnowski, Frank Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept? |
title | Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept? |
title_full | Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept? |
title_fullStr | Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept? |
title_full_unstemmed | Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept? |
title_short | Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept? |
title_sort | time slices: what is the duration of a percept? |
topic | Unsolved Mystery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27070777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002433 |
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