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Afterimages offer insight into how the brain maintains visual stability across eye movements, revealing that perception closely tracks but slightly underestimates actual eye shifts. doi.org/hbsjgx
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The ghosts we see: Afterimages provide clues to how our brains perceive a stable environment
Our eyes alone do not provide us with a continuous and stable view of the world. They jump several times each second in rapid movements called saccades.
