Motion Integration and Postdiction in Visual Awareness
David M. Eagleman* and Terrence J. Sejnowski
The Salk Institute
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*Present address:
Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
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Houston, TX 77030
eagleman@bcm.edu
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This is a page of supplemental information for D. M. Eagleman and T. J. Sejnowski, Motion Integration and Postdiction in Visual Awareness, Science, 287(5460), 2000, and for follow-up Technical Comments. Click below for the papers.

The goal of this line of research is to close in on a connection between physical mechanisms present in neural tissue and the perceptual functions that these mechanisms embody. Please follow the links to the left for an overview of the flash lag effect, the explanations previously forwarded to explain it, our hypothesis to explain our results, and several demonstrations.

"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward" - Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

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