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Moving ahead through differential visual latency

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  • Gopathy Purushothaman
  • Saumil S. Patel

    (College of Engineering and College of Optometry, University of Houston)

  • Harold E. Bedell

    (College of Engineering and College of Optometry, University of Houston)

  • Haluk Ogmen

Abstract

The time it takes to transmit information along the human visual pathways introduces a substantial delay in the processing of images that fall on the retina. This visual latency might be expected to cause a moving object to be perceived at a position behind its actual one, disrupting the accuracy of visually guided motor actions such as catching or hitting, but this does not happen. It has been proposed that the perceived position of a moving object is extrapolated forwards in time to compensate for the delay in visual processing1,2,3.

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  • Gopathy Purushothaman & Saumil S. Patel & Harold E. Bedell & Haluk Ogmen, 1998. "Moving ahead through differential visual latency," Nature, Nature, vol. 396(6710), pages 424-424, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:396:y:1998:i:6710:d:10.1038_24766
    DOI: 10.1038/24766
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    1. Mina A Khoei & Guillaume S Masson & Laurent U Perrinet, 2017. "The Flash-Lag Effect as a Motion-Based Predictive Shift," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(1), pages 1-31, January.

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