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Nature Neuroscience 10, 423–425 (1 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/nn1874

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

David Burr , Arianna Tozzi & M Concetta Morrone

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.