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Nature Neuroscience 10, 423 - 425 (2007)
Published online: 18 March 2007 | doi:10.1038/nn1874

Neural mechanisms for timing visual events are spatially selective in real-world coordinates

David Burr1,2,3, Arianna Tozzi1,3 & M Concetta Morrone4

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It is generally assumed that perceptual events are timed by a centralized supramodal clock. This study challenges this notion in humans by providing clear evidence that visual events of subsecond duration are timed by visual neural mechanisms with spatially circumscribed receptive fields, localized in real-world, rather than retinal, coordinates.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Università Degli Studi di Firenze, via S. Nicolò 89, Florence, Italy.
  2. School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Stirling Hw, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia.
  3. Isitituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Italy.
  4. Facoltà di Psicologia, Università Vita e Salute "San Raffaele," via Olgettina 58, Milan, Italy.

Correspondence to: David Burr1,2,3 e-mail: dave@in.cnr.it

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