Why does a clock sometimes appear stopped? Is it possible to perceive the world in slow
motion during a car accident? Can action and effect be reversed? Time perception is …

Synesthesia is an unusual condition in which stimulation of one modality evokes sensation
or experience in another modality. Although discussed in the literature well over a century …

In the flash-lag illusion, a flash and a moving object in the same location appear to be offset.
A series of psychophysical experiments yields data inconsistent with two previously …

When asked to imagine a visual scene, such as an ant crawling on a checkered table cloth
toward a jar of jelly, individuals subjectively report different vividness in their mental …

To judge causality, organisms must determine the temporal order of their actions and sensations.
However, this judgment may be confounded by changing delays in sensory pathways, …

The complex structure of the visual system is sometimes exposed by its illusions. The historical
study of systematic misperceptions, combined with a recent explosion of techniques to …

Perceived duration is conventionally assumed to correspond with objective duration, but a
growing literature suggests a more complex picture. For example, repeated stimuli appear …

Observers commonly report that time seems to have moved in slow motion during a life-threatening
event. It is unknown whether this is a function of increased time resolution during the …

Gait abnormalities, such as shuffling steps, start hesitation, and freezing, are common and
often incapacitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other parkinsonian disorders. …

… The philosopher David Hume pointed out that events that are close together in space
and time are more likely than spatiotemporally distant events to be perceived as causally …