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Distortions of time during rapid eye movements

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Illusions of spatial vision can occur during rapid eye movements known as saccades. A new report shows that temporal judgments are also distorted around the time of saccades, suggesting that the neural representations of time and space may be linked.

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Figure 1: Two illusions of subjective time around the time of a saccade.

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  1. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    David M Eagleman

  2. the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

    David M Eagleman

  3. the Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    David M Eagleman

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Eagleman, D. Distortions of time during rapid eye movements. Nat Neurosci 8, 850–851 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0705-850

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