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elizabeth, modified 8 Years ago at 4/15/16 9:09 AM
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article - Time Slices: What is the duration of a Percept?

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Time Slices: What is the duration of a Percept?

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Abstract
We experience the world as a seamless stream of percepts. However, intriguing illusions
and recent experiments suggest that the world is not continuously translated into conscious
perception. Instead, perception seems to operate in a discrete manner, just like movies
appear continuous although they consist of discrete images. To explain how the temporal
resolution of human vision can be fast compared to sluggish conscious perception, we propose
a novel conceptual framework in which features of objects, such as their color, are
quasi-continuously and unconsciously analyzed with high temporal resolution. Like other
features, temporal features, such as duration, are coded as quantitative labels. When
unconscious processing is “completed,” all features are simultaneously rendered conscious
at discrete moments in time, sometimes even hundreds of milliseconds after stimuli were
presented.
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Chris M, modified 8 Years ago at 4/15/16 10:12 AM
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Thus is now famous "vibrations" and "pixelations."
C P M, modified 8 Years ago at 4/15/16 11:15 AM
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Interesting, thanks for the links.  This is the model presented in Culadasa's book: "The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science"

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