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Max Levinson

@maxlevinson.bsky.social
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visual phenomenology, active vision, cognitive neuroscience postdoc @ NYU maxlevinson.net

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Max Levinson @maxlevinson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
When we keep our eyes still for a long time, things start to look weird. The brain can blend distinct visual features, like colors, to create perceptual content that is not found in the physical input. How does this illusion (“perceptual filling-in”) happen? [2/6]
Top row: The presented stimulus is a grey circle on a purple square background.
Bottom row: The conscious percept initially matches the stimulus, but over time the circle and square blend together to produce one uniformly-colored square.
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Max Levinson @maxlevinson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NEW PAPER 👁️🚨 w/ @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social If you keep your eyes very still, the visual world oddly appears to "fill-in", or blend across boundaries. Filling-in over stronger boundaries requires even longer staring. Is this because involuntary microsaccades more effectively delay filling-in? (1/3)
a grey circle on a purple background
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