Is perception discrete or continuous?

By R. VanRullen, Christof Koch. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2003

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The Brain's Router: A Cortical Network Model of Serial Processing in the Primate Brain (2010, result): “The 50 ms delay of individual productions is consistent with other experimental approaches which have suggested a discrete organization of cognition at a frequency close to 13 Hz [120].”
Spectral fingerprints of large-scale neuronal interactions (2012, background): “Cortical oscillations may reflect not only rhythmic neuronal activity during continuous cognitive processes but also the rhythmic dynamics of cognitive processing itsel”
A Two-Point Visual Control Model of Steering (2004, background): “First, researchers have suggested that humans operate, at least to some extent, on a discrete rhythmic “clock” (e.g., VanRullen & Koch, 2003) ; models of human cognition (e.g., Anderson & Lebiere, 1998; Newell, 1990; Meyer & Kieras, 1997) have estimated that the cycle time of such a “clock” is…”
Neural Cross-Frequency Coupling: Connecting Architectures, Mechanisms, and Functions. (2015, positive): “Likewise, alpha – gamma CFC assemblies are proposed to mediate cortical representation of sequences of visual ﬁ eld locations [10,62].”
Perceptual Cycles. (2016, background): “My colleague Christof Koch and I evaluated this question more than 13 years ago in the same journal, tentatively concluding that, although hard evidence was clearly lacking at the time, discrete perception (see Glossary) could not be simply ruled out [3].”
Phase Synchrony among Neuronal Oscillations in the Human Cortex (2005, background): “Taking the proposed “representational” (Singer, 1999; Tallon-Baudry and Bertrand, 1999) and attentional (von Stein et al., 2000; VanRullen and Koch, 2003) roles of / and oscillations, the results suggest that such 1:3 synchronization of these oscillations may mediate the contents-to-context binding ”
The Continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion Is Associated with Changes in Electroencephalogram Power at ∼13 Hz (2006, background): “The precise temporal organization of our perceptual experience is a major unanswered question (Crick and Koch, 2003; Eagleman and Churchland, 2005): do we perceive the world as a continuous flow of information or in discrete episodes or “snapshots” as in a regular movie (Stroud, 1956; Shallice, 1964”
New vistas for α-frequency band oscillations (2007, neutral): “Lisman, Idiart and Jensen [64,65] have suggested that nested u and g oscillations underlie the retention and capacity limits of WM. VanRullen and Koch [ 66 ] postulated that nested a and g oscillations produce discrete perception, so that g waves constitute the contents of each ‘snapshot’, with the ”
The Phase of Ongoing EEG Oscillations Predicts Visual Perception (2009, background): “While an influence of phase on perception could be expected based on theoretical considerations (VanRullen and Koch, 2003; Schroeder and Lakatos, 2009), EEG experiments (Monto et al., 2008) and psychophysical studies (Jones et al., 2002) have so far demonstrated these effects only for slow…”
Shaping Functional Architecture by Oscillatory Alpha Activity: Gating by Inhibition (2010, background): “…for upcoming processing. pulsed inHibition It has been proposed that oscillatory alpha activity operates in a phasic manner (Varela et al., 1981; VanRullen and Koch, 2003), and it has been demonstrated that the phase of pre-stimulus alpha oscillations modulates visual detection (Busch et al.,…”