Maus, Gerrit W and Goh, Hannah Letitia and Lisi, Matteo (2020) 'Perceiving locations of moving objects across eye blinks.' Psychological Science, 31 (9). pp. 1117-1128. ISSN 0956-7976 (In Press)

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Abstract

Eye blinks cause disruption of visual input that generally goes unnoticed. It is thought that the brain uses active suppression to prevent awareness of the gaps, but it is unclear how suppression would affect the perception of dynamic events, when visual input changes across the blink. Here we addressed this question by studying the perception of moving objects around eye blinks. In Experiment 1 (N = 16), we observed that when motion terminates during a blink, the last perceived position is shifted forward from its actual last position. In Experiment 2 (N = 8), we found that motion trajectories were perceived as more continuous when the object jumped backward during the blink, cancelling a fraction of the space it travelled. This suggests subjective underestimation of blink duration. These results reveal the strategies used by the visual system to compensate for disruptions and maintain perceptual continuity: time elapsed during eye blinks is perceptually compressed and filled with extrapolated information.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	eyeblinks; motion perception; extrapolation; time perception; vision; open data
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of
SWORD Depositor:	Elements
Depositing User:	Elements
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2020 11:54
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2022 14:15
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/28096

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