A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion, described in the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers from France, suggests that the unconscious representation of a visual object is processed for around one tenth of a second before it enters conscious awareness.
Full article and reference at Neurophilosophy
Strange,
liked the illusion… type thing =D
That’s quite cool. I have done a similar thing by focusing next to a chair leg and then seein the leg dissapear (in was a long wait in the doctors).
Although I have too many tabs open and this plays jumpy, it still worked.
Phillis: You and I appear to have similar waking hours… not related in some way are we?
Pax, amor et concordia.
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seeing*
(it* was a long wait in doctors)
Unsual for me to be so messy with my typing (even at this hour).
Very cool.. its like that other test for blind spots.. http://www.blindspottest.com/
I was just thinking today….
If time could be a commodity, so you could buy some and concentrate it in one place to speed up food growth ( relative to the surroundings) or reduce it in one place to keep a kitten cute and fluffy, or to surround your bed at night so you age slower ( but then would you wake after you think you’ve had 8 hours, but everyone else has had only 5, so relatively you’d get older quicker,….)
Umm, how exactly does this “illusion” demonstrate anything?
You need to follow the link to the full article for an explanation of the link between the video and the words.
yeah that’s a nice illusion but how does it illustrate the point in the blog? I don’t get it. Maybe it just needs more explanation
A bit like having aura when suffering from a migraine.
That was awsome, so was the blindspottest page, tried this before with a pen after watching a dawkins interview but never got it to work really. I thought maybe im the first without a blindspot! Guess not =(
Did anyone else gel the yellow dots flashing randomly?
@David : It shows that if you focus your eyes on one spot, even objects closely around it may not be picked up by the viewer. Consider driving a vehicle and only focus on the car in front. You’ll miss the biker filtering between cars (as you’re not paying attention to your mirrors), the woman with the pram at the pedestrian crossing, someone running towards you from your side (periferal vision “turned off” as your only focusing straight ahead) etc. etc. etc.
Put another way, focus on one spot and your brain discards information of “irrelevant” information. In this case, the yellow dots. Your brain will focus on the green dot and what movements are going on near it. Your tracking green dot PLUS the “moving mesh”. The stationary yellow dots then are irrelevant. This is a remnant from the days humans were hunters focusing on their prey.
If you read the whole article it does make sense. Interesting stuff.
Bloomin’ brilliant!! Interesting article as well!
A dyslexic friend “hears” the numbers in a sequence (say a telephone number) in a different order from the order in which they are said. Which appears to mean that he hears certain numbers before they have been said!
Actually I think that’s just that they are processed at different speeds, so that a fast processed number “registers” with him sooner than a slow processed number does, to the extent that it seems to come before it.
I wonder if anyone has similar experiences or if there’s research being done?
Keep being focussed on the green spot is “hard”, especially as you do notice the yellow spots disappear … so you keep seeing them .. at least, part of you “keeps being focussed on them, even if you stare to the midst(otherwise you could not see them disappear).. you notice it disappears .. and appear … in no specific order .. at times all three .. and then just one .. just 2 .. etc.
A finger close up to your eyes .. and you will see two … hahaha … Ofcourse that did not work for you over there .. you stared at the finger .. cross eyed .. look behind ..
Do you get all edgy when you try these things? I do. My body doesn’t want to ‘go there’.