Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Video

Updated: May 13, 2026

Investigating Object Representations in the Macaque Dorsal Visual Stream Using Single-unit Recordings
07:08

Investigating Object Representations in the Macaque Dorsal Visual Stream Using Single-unit Recordings

Published on: August 1, 2018

Macaque monkeys perceive the flash lag illusion.

Manivannan Subramaniyan1, Alexander S Ecker, Philipp Berens

  • 1Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

Plos One
|March 26, 2013
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Visual uncertainty and task demands shape active sensing strategies in mice.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2026
Same author

Visual uncertainty and task demands shape active sensing strategies in mice.

Current biology : CB·2026
Same author

Compound models and Pearson residuals for single-cell RNA-seq data without UMIs.

Genome biology·2026
Same author

Ventral tegmental area glutamatergic neurons suppress hippocampal ripples and induce head movements in mice.

Scientific reports·2026
Same author

Eyewire II - A connectomic resource for resolving cell types and circuits of the mouse retina.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2026
Same author

Inhibition benefits neural system identification.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2026
Same journal

Analysis of strength degradation of coal and rock masses and stability of mined areas under long term immersion environment.

PloS one·2026
Same journal

Biogenic Silver-Selenium nanocomposite with anticancer activity and potent efficacy against vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

PloS one·2026
Same journal

Preparation and physicochemical characterization of a biodegradable chitosan/carboxymethyl cellulose hydrogel synthesized in NaOH/urea medium.

PloS one·2026
Same journal

Action-guilt, survivor-guilt, and depression in combat-related PTSD.

PloS one·2026
Same journal

Explainable machine learning for predicting activities of daily living at discharge in stroke patients: A retrospective study using SHAP interpretability.

PloS one·2026
Same journal

Deep learning based two-way feature depiction model for brain tumor detection.

PloS one·2026
See all related articles

Monkeys perceive the flash lag illusion, similar to humans, helping to understand how the brain compensates for neural delays. This research opens doors for electrophysiological studies in behaving macaques.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Psychophysics

Background:

  • Neural signal transmission is slow, causing discrepancies in perceiving moving objects.
  • The brain may use statistical regularities to compensate for neural delays.
  • The flash lag illusion, where a flashed object appears to lag behind a moving one, is a key phenomenon, but its neural basis is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if macaques perceive the flash lag illusion.
  • To compare the flash lag illusion in macaques and humans.
  • To lay the groundwork for electrophysiological studies of the flash lag illusion in behaving macaques.

Main Methods:

  • Monkeys were trained to report their perceptions without reward bias.
  • Psychophysical methods were used to quantify the illusion's magnitude.

More Related Videos

Design and Use of an Apparatus for Presenting Graspable Objects in 3D Workspace
09:11

Design and Use of an Apparatus for Presenting Graspable Objects in 3D Workspace

Published on: August 8, 2019

A Pressure Injection System for Investigating the Neuropharmacology of Information Processing in Awake Behaving Macaque Monkey Cortex
09:46

A Pressure Injection System for Investigating the Neuropharmacology of Information Processing in Awake Behaving Macaque Monkey Cortex

Published on: March 14, 2016

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: May 13, 2026

Investigating Object Representations in the Macaque Dorsal Visual Stream Using Single-unit Recordings
07:08

Investigating Object Representations in the Macaque Dorsal Visual Stream Using Single-unit Recordings

Published on: August 1, 2018

Design and Use of an Apparatus for Presenting Graspable Objects in 3D Workspace
09:11

Design and Use of an Apparatus for Presenting Graspable Objects in 3D Workspace

Published on: August 8, 2019

A Pressure Injection System for Investigating the Neuropharmacology of Information Processing in Awake Behaving Macaque Monkey Cortex
09:46

A Pressure Injection System for Investigating the Neuropharmacology of Information Processing in Awake Behaving Macaque Monkey Cortex

Published on: March 14, 2016

  • The illusion's dependence on stimulus speed was analyzed.

    • Main Results:

    • Macaques perceive the flash lag illusion similarly to humans.
    • The magnitude of the illusion is smaller in macaques than in humans.
    • Illusion magnitude increases linearly with stimulus speed in both species.

    Conclusions:

    • Macaques serve as a valid model for studying the flash lag illusion.
    • Sensory processing, including visual perception of motion, is highly conserved between macaques and humans.
    • This study enables future neurophysiological investigations into the neural mechanisms of visual perception and motion processing.