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Moving backward through perceptual compensation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Haluk Öğmen
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4005; ogmen@uh.eduhttp://www.egr.uh.edu/ece/faculty/ogmen/
Saumil S. Patel
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030; saumil@swbell.net
Gopathy Purushothaman
Affiliation:
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, T2304, Medical Center North, Nashville, TN 37232; gopathy.purushothaman@vanderbilt.edu
Harold E. Bedell
Affiliation:
College of Optometry and Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2020. Hbedell@optometry.uh.edu

Abstract

In the target article Nijhawan speculates that visual perceptual mechanisms compensate for neural delays so that moving objects may be perceived closer to their physical locations. However, the vast majority of published psychophysical data are inconsistent with this speculation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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