Meaning of stopped-clock illusion | Babel Free

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“Clearly, by virtue of being illusions, these experiences represent a certain temporal feature of the stimulus (its relative duration in the case of the stopped-clock illusion, and location in the case of the phi phenomenon) as being other than it is.”

“This paper built on previous work investigating the stopped-clock illusion: The momentary sensation, when glancing at a clock with a silently advancing second hand, that the clock has stopped.”

“The uncanny swiftness of years, the ghostly silence said to characterize the experience of pilots in the fastest spy plane, positioned as they are in front of their own report, the beautiful name of a rapid eye movement, “saccade,” the so-called stopped-clock illusion, chronostasis, familiar from earliest school days, which I remember mostly in terms of awaiting dismissal, the thousands of incidents of my seeing the red second hand twitch, so it seems, backward at the moment of my consulting the austere slave clock that graces the front wall of every classroom like a seal.”

“Do you know about the stopped-clock illusion? It demonstrates that the brain bridges the empty gaps to complete the illusion.”

“Take saccadic masking: Without it, our experience would be full of disorienting and useless visual information. We only notice this striking fact about perception when we experience the stopped-clock illusion.”

“Some say time passes quickly (or slowly), whether it was 8, 10 or more minutes—how perception of time changes with awareness. There can even be an increased experience of the stopped-clock illusion.”

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