Brain represents optical illusion as delayed reality

(Society for Neuroscience) A study of humans and monkeys published in JNeurosci has found the same subset of neurons encode actual and illusory complex flow motion. This finding supports, at the level of single neurons, what the Czech scientist Jan Purkinje surmised 150 years ago: 'Illusions contain visual truth.'
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