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How do we experience the perception of now?

Not all at once. By breaking the synchrony between foveal and peripheral vision in an RSVP task, we found that the moment you experience as the present is stitched together from present information at the center of gaze and past information from the periphery. A moment of visual experience is not a moment in the world.


The moment you experience as the present: current information at the centre of gaze, past information from the periphery. Hover to play

Upadhyayula, Phillips & Flombaum (2023), JEP: General. PDF · Data & materials · Talk · Paradigm demo


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