Title |
Neurobiological Mechanisms Behind the Spatiotemporal Illusions of Awareness Used for Advocating Prediction or Postdiction
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Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00593 |
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Authors |
Talis Bachmann |
Abstract |
The fact that it takes time for the brain to process information from the changing environment underlies many experimental phenomena of awareness of spatiotemporal events, including a number of astonishing illusions. These phenomena have been explained from the predictive and postdictive theoretical perspectives. Here I describe the most extensively studied phenomena in order to see how well the two perspectives can explain them. Next, the neurobiological perceptual retouch mechanism of producing stimulation awareness is characterized and its work in causing the listed illusions is described. A perspective on how brain mechanisms of conscious perception produce the phenomena supportive of the postdictive view is presented in this article. At the same time, some of the phenomena cannot be explained by the traditional postdictive account, but can be interpreted from the perceptual retouch theory perspective. |
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