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Review
. 2001 Jun 5;11(11):R427-30.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00252-4.

Time perception: brain time or event time?

A Johnston  1 , S Nishida
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Review

Time perception: brain time or event time?

A Johnston et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Recent experiments show that synchronous events can appear to an observer to occur at different times. Neural processing time delays are offered as an explanation of these temporal illusions, but equating perceived time with processing time leads to some thorny philosophical problems.

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