Vision: when the clock appears to stop.

Curr Biol

University Laboratory of Physiology, Parks Road, OX1 3PT, Oxford, UK.

Published: February 2002

Eye movements produce a temporary loss of visual sensitivity known as saccadic suppression, and a distortion of space perception known as saccadic compression. A new study has reported a seemingly related phenomenon --chronostasis---in which one's perception of time also undergoes an illusory distortion during rapid movements of the eyes.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00707-8DOI Listing

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