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Shifting attention to the flash-lag effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Marcus Vinícius C. Baldo
Affiliation:
“Roberto Vieira” Laboratory of Sensory Physiology, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP 05508-900, Brazil; baldo@usp.brhttp://www.fisio.icb.usp.br/~vinicius/index.html
Stanley A. Klein
Affiliation:
Visual Processing Laboratory, School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020. sklein@berkeley.edu

Abstract

An attention shift from a stationary to a changing object has to occur in feature – rather than physical – space, in order to bind these stimuli into a unitary percept. This time-consuming shift leads to the perception of a changing stimulus further ahead along its trajectory. This attentional framework is able to accommodate the flash-lag effect in its multiple empirical manifestations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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