Saccadic Masking - Illusions Caused By Saccadic Masking

Illusions Caused By Saccadic Masking

Artist and Professor of Psychiatry, Akiyoshi Kitaoka, has drawn illusions to illustrate these effects and others. It has also been postulated that the "stopped clock illusion" (a form of chronostasis) is caused by neurological processing of saccadic masking.

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