Our Brains are 15 Seconds in the Past: Illusion of visual stability through active perceptual serial dependence

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Abstract​

Despite a noisy and ever-changing visual world, our perceptual experience seems remarkably stable over time. How does our visual system achieve this apparent stability? Here, we introduce a previously unknown visual illusion that shows direct evidence for an online mechanism continuously smoothing our percepts over time. As a result, a continuously seen physically changing object can be misperceived as unchanging. We find that online object appearance is captured by past visual experience up to 15 seconds ago. We propose that, because of an underlying active mechanism of serial dependence, the representation of the object is continuously merged over time, and the consequence is an illusory stability in which object appearance is biased toward the past. Our results provide a direct demonstration of the link between serial dependence in visual representations and perceived visual stability in everyday life.

Science | AAAS
 
Not the greatest test model, but it does shed some light on the "time dilation illusion",
(where in time slows down - like in an accident).

Also this study states to "up to 15 seconds", implying that some persons are faster or slower.
This study also adds some credence to the statement: "time is an illusion"

Of course I believe that some people are Much slower than 15 seconds. ;)
 

Call me. We hit another timeline. I had an one yesterday. Very vivid. I miss the old days already 2 or 3 more weeks of this covid shit and we're done.
 


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