Microsaccades mediate perceptual alternations in Monet’s “Impression, sunrise”

Abstract Troxler fading, the perceptual disappearance of stationary images upon sustained fixation, is common for objects with equivalent luminance to that of the background. Previous work showed that variations in microsaccadic rates underlie the perceptual vanishing and intensification of simple s...

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Main Authors: Robert G. Alexander, Ashwin Venkatakrishnan, Jordi Chanovas, Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82222-3