Brain Predicts Eye Movements With 94% Accuracy, But Off by 6%
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In darkness, researchers used afterimages to reveal that the brain predicts the visual consequences of eye movements via an efference copy, achieving about 94% accuracy with a consistent 6% undershoot; this explains how perception stays stable during rapid eye movements and has implications for VR and eye-movement disorders.
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