Space-time disarray and visual awareness.

Iperception

University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven), Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Tiensestraat 102-box 3711, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium; and Delft University of Technology, EEMCS, MMI, Mekelweg 4, NL-2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands; e-mail:

Published: November 2012

Local space-time scrambling of optical data leads to violent jerks and dislocations. On masking these, visual awareness of the scene becomes cohesive, with dislocations discounted as amodally occluding foreground. Such cohesive space-time of awareness is technically illusory because ground truth is jumbled whereas awareness is coherent. Apparently the visual field is a construction rather than a (veridical) perception.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485849PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0490sasDOI Listing

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