{"id":242461,"date":"2026-08-10T02:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/brain-activity-reveals-two-stages-of-visual-processing-before-conscious-perception"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:03:54","slug":"brain-activity-reveals-two-stages-of-visual-processing-before-conscious-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/brain-activity-reveals-two-stages-of-visual-processing-before-conscious-perception","title":{"rendered":"Brain activity reveals two stages of visual processing before conscious perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-activity-reveals-two-stages-of-visual-processing-before-conscious-perception2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeing feels immediate; we open our eyes and the world seems to appear as a continuous stream. But some visual illusions show that events occurring later can change how we perceive what happened earlier, suggesting that the brain may collect and combine information for a short time before producing the experience that reaches awareness.<\/p>\n<p>This effect is known as \u201cpostdiction.\u201d Here\u2019s an example: Two colored dots appear briefly in different places, but people see only a single moving dot that changes color along the way. This means that the second dot must influence how the first is perceived, a typical example of postdiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing feels immediate; we open our eyes and the world seems to appear as a continuous stream. But some visual illusions show that events occurring later can change how we perceive what happened earlier, suggesting that the brain may collect and combine information for a short time before producing the experience that reaches awareness. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}