Owing to these developments, the photojournalist was able to perceive a significant moment in a fraction of a second and to use the camera with such speed and precision that the instantaneous perception would be preserved forever.
This instantaneous perception clashes sharply with the American cultural taboo against using race to identify someone.
Our finding, however, gives direct evidence that trajectories distort the instantaneous perception of a face.
While the minimal self at the core of near-instantaneous perception is difficult to put into words, there is, in the first instance, nothing difficult about putting the interpersonal self into words: 'am a kind person', 'am not as good as her'.
Finally, our results also point to the fact that there is no panacea for an instantaneous improvement in perceptions of health care quality.
This seemed to me a reflection of the almost instantaneous effacement of perception for Clive — thought itself was almost impossible within this tiny window of time.
Pierre Boulez, who recorded the work brilliantly with the Cleveland Orchestra in the early 1990s, wrote that this influential score signaled "the arrival of a kind of musical form which, renewing itself from moment to moment, implies a similarly instantaneous mode of perception".
Moreover, the instantaneous nature of aspect perception, the "ahh" feeling of revelation, the sense that everything is different and yet everything remains the same is exactly what religious people describe in conversion experiences.
The intense contemporary interest in Proust "may be some connection with the age of the Internet, where everything seems instantaneous and we have the perception we can communicate instantly, but still, we are governed by the laws of time," Mr. Carter said.
In summary, our findings best fit the notion that rat whisker-related tactile perception is based on instantaneous kinematic cues.
