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 Concept Videos

Depth Perception and Spatial Vision01:15

Depth Perception and Spatial Vision

2.5K
Depth perception is the ability to perceive objects three-dimensionally. It relies on two types of cues: binocular and monocular. Binocular cues depend on the combination of images from both eyes and how the eyes work together. Since the eyes are in slightly different positions, each eye captures a slightly different image. This disparity between images, known as binocular disparity, helps the brain interpret depth. When the brain compares these images, it determines the distance to an object.
2.5K
Gestalt Principles of Perception01:21

Gestalt Principles of Perception

1.7K
Gestalt principles provide a framework for understanding how humans perceive objects as unified wholes within their context. These principles are essential in explaining the cognitive processes that make sense of complex visual stimuli by organizing them into coherent groups. One fundamental principle is proximity, which posits that objects located close to each other are perceived as a collective group. For instance, when dots are positioned near one another, the visual system interprets them...
1.7K
Visual System01:26

Visual System

2.2K
Light enters the eye through the cornea, a transparent, dome-shaped surface covering the surface of the eyeball that helps to direct and focus incoming light. This light is then channeled toward the pupil, an adjustable opening whose size is controlled by the iris. The iris, a pigmented muscle, regulates the amount of light entering the eye by contracting or dilating the pupil, thereby ensuring optimal light levels for clear vision.
Once through the pupil, the light passes through the lens, a...
2.2K
Anatomy of the Eyeball01:20

Anatomy of the Eyeball

11.2K
The eye is a spherical, hollow structure composed of three tissue layers. The outer layer — the fibrous tunic, comprises the sclera — a white structure — and the cornea, which is transparent. The sclera encompasses some of the ocular surface, most of which is not visible. However, the 'white of the eye' is distinctively visible in humans compared to other species. The cornea, a clear covering at the front of the eye, enables light penetration. The eye's middle...
11.2K
Vision01:24

Vision

61.2K
Vision is the result of light being detected and transduced into neural signals by the retina of the eye. This information is then further analyzed and interpreted by the brain. First, light enters the front of the eye and is focused by the cornea and lens onto the retina—a thin sheet of neural tissue lining the back of the eye. Because of refraction through the convex lens of the eye, images are projected onto the retina upside-down and reversed.
61.2K
Perceptual Constancy01:12

Perceptual Constancy

1.7K
Perceptual constancy is the ability to recognize that objects remain consistent and unchanged even when their appearance varies due to changes in sensory input. There are four main types of perceptual constancy: size constancy, shape constancy, color constancy, and brightness constancy.
Size constancy is the recognition that an object remains the same size, even when its image on the retina changes. For instance, a bus is perceived to be large enough to carry people, even if it looks tiny from...
1.7K

You might also read

Related Articles

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

Sort by
Same author

Pre-Saccadic Suppression is Reduced for Anti-Saccades.

Journal of neurophysiology·2026
Same author

Prefilled insulin syringes for peri-operative care.

Anaesthesia·2026
Same author

Concomitant motor responses facilitate the acquisition of multiple timing priors beyond upper-limb contexts.

iScience·2026
Same author

Is there more to adaptation than meets the eye?

Vision research·2026
Same author

The Effect of Contrast Reversal on Peripheral Visual Acuity.

Translational vision science & technology·2025
Same author

Measuring residual visual function after cerebral damage - a potential path for optimising rehabilitation approaches.

Progress in brain research·2025
Same journal

Effects of highly pathogenic avian influenza on the behaviour and survival of a colonial breeding seabird.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026
Same journal

A special feature highlighting impactful science from countries and regions underrepresented in Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026
Same journal

Religious rituals in the United Kingdom and Brazil are associated with increased social bonding and pain threshold.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026
Same journal

Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026
Same journal

Phylogenomics resolves the century-old 'Zoraptera problem': Zoraptera as the earliest diverging lineage of Polyneoptera.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026
Same journal

Paternal dietary macronutrients affect the seminal vesicle fluid proteome and fetal development: a geometric framework for nutrition study in mice.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026
See all related articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Mar 17, 2026

Development of a Gaze-Contingent Display Framework Designed for Perceptual and Oculomotor Research with Simulated Central Vision Loss
07:12

Development of a Gaze-Contingent Display Framework Designed for Perceptual and Oculomotor Research with Simulated Central Vision Loss

Published on: April 11, 2025

1.0K

Object size determines the spatial spread of visual time.

Corinne Fulcher1, Paul V McGraw2, Neil W Roach2

  • 1Bradford School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP Bradford, UK corinne.fulcher@gmail.com.

Proceedings. Biological Sciences
|July 29, 2016
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

The nervous system processes event duration using a self-scaled mechanism, linking spatial and temporal visual information. This research reveals how duration perception is influenced by stimulus size and spatial spread.

Keywords:
after-effectduration adaptationsizespatial selectivitytime perceptionvisual

More Related Videos

Using Looming Visual Stimuli to Evaluate Mouse Vision
05:07

Using Looming Visual Stimuli to Evaluate Mouse Vision

Published on: June 13, 2019

12.4K
Stimulus-specific Cortical Visual Evoked Potential Morphological Patterns
09:42

Stimulus-specific Cortical Visual Evoked Potential Morphological Patterns

Published on: May 12, 2019

6.5K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Mar 17, 2026

Development of a Gaze-Contingent Display Framework Designed for Perceptual and Oculomotor Research with Simulated Central Vision Loss
07:12

Development of a Gaze-Contingent Display Framework Designed for Perceptual and Oculomotor Research with Simulated Central Vision Loss

Published on: April 11, 2025

1.0K
Using Looming Visual Stimuli to Evaluate Mouse Vision
05:07

Using Looming Visual Stimuli to Evaluate Mouse Vision

Published on: June 13, 2019

12.4K
Stimulus-specific Cortical Visual Evoked Potential Morphological Patterns
09:42

Stimulus-specific Cortical Visual Evoked Potential Morphological Patterns

Published on: May 12, 2019

6.5K

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Temporal Processing

Background:

  • The brain lacks dedicated duration-encoding structures, unlike spatial processing.
  • Understanding temporal processing is crucial for cognitive neuroscience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between spatial and temporal domains in event duration perception.
  • To explore the neural mechanisms underlying duration encoding.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized sensory adaptation techniques to induce duration after-effects (compression/expansion).
  • Measured the spatial spread and stimulus-size dependency of these after-effects.
  • Developed a computational model to test neural filtering hypotheses.

Main Results:

  • Perceived duration after-effects showed broad spatial tuning, extending significantly beyond the stimulus area.
  • The spatial spread of after-effects scaled directly with the size of the adapting stimulus.
  • Effects were inconsistent with fixed-scale neural filtering models.

Conclusions:

  • Temporal processing, specifically duration perception, is supported by a self-scaled mechanism.
  • Duration-selective neurons pool spatial information from earlier visual processing stages.
  • This mechanism integrates spatial and temporal information for accurate event duration encoding.