Flash-lag effect
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Author: Dr. Romi Nijhawan, Psychology, University of Sussex, UK
on Amazon.Dr. Romi Nijhawan accepted the invitation on 17 October 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 17 April 2008).
This article will briefly cover: The key findings on the flash-lag effect, various attempts at explaining the effect and what the effect tells us about neural processing.
Human observers see a flashed object co-localized with a moving object as lagging behind. This simple demonstration has been studied off and on for more than one hundred years.
| Suggested by: | Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ |
| Invited by: | Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia |
