Illusions of spatial vision can occur during rapid eye movements known as saccades. A new report shows that temporal judgments are also distorted around the time of saccades, suggesting that the neural representations of time and space may be linked.
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Eagleman, D. Distortions of time during rapid eye movements. Nat Neurosci 8, 850–851 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0705-850
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