Your eyes dart about rhythmically sampling different parts of a scene in little bites. Your memory system papers this over to create a illusion of seamless perception. Let Parr and Friston break it down for you:
Parr, T., & Friston, K. J. (2017). The active construction of the visual world. Neuropsychologia.
For further reading:
Buschman,T.J. and Miller, E.K. (2010) Shifting the Spotlight of Attention: Evidence for Discrete Computations in Cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 4(194): 1-9. View PDF »
Buschman, T.J. and Miller, E.K. (2009) Serial, covert, shifts of attention during visual search are reflected by the frontal eye fields and correlated with population oscillations. Neuron, 63: 386-396. View PDF
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