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Gerrit W Maus¹, Hannah Letitia Goh¹, Matteo Lisi²

¹School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University.

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|August 18, 2020

Summary

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The brain compensates for vision loss during eyeblinks by compressing time and filling gaps with extrapolated motion. This maintains perceptual continuity, making dynamic events seem smoother despite visual input disruption.

Keywords:

extrapolation eyeblinks motion perception open data time perception vision

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Visual Perception
Cognitive Science

Background:

Eyeblinks disrupt visual input, yet awareness of these gaps is typically suppressed.
The impact of this neural suppression on perceiving dynamic visual events during blinks remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how the brain's active suppression mechanisms affect the perception of moving objects during eyeblinks.
To understand the visual system's strategies for maintaining perceptual continuity despite disrupted input.

Main Methods:

Two experiments were conducted involving human participants (N=16 and N=8) observing moving objects around natural eyeblinks.
Participants reported their perception of object position and motion trajectories during induced blinks.

Main Results:

When motion ceased during a blink, the perceived final position was shifted forward from the actual last position.
Motion trajectories appeared more continuous when an object's backward jump during a blink canceled some of its forward travel, suggesting underestimation of blink duration.

Conclusions:

The visual system perceptually compresses the duration of eyeblinks.
The brain extrapolates visual information across blinks to maintain a continuous perception of dynamic events.
These findings reveal active neural strategies for compensating for visual input disruptions.