It disenchants, re-enchants, detoxifies, destabilizes, resists closure, slows perception, and increases our grasp of the world.
Finally, if ventral cortex contributed only to slow motion perception, then a ventral visual lesion would impair slow but not fast motion perception.
In his shorter, imagist poems, Pound sought to abolish all that was not direct; he disliked the pedestrianism of figurative language, those similes and metaphors that abstract and slow down perception.
This is known as the "stopped-clock illusion" and is thought to be caused by tiny eye movements, known as saccades, that temporarily slow our perception, leading it to look like the hand of the clock is jammed before it picks up again.
The faster an object travels, the slower its perception of time becomes, such that at the speed of light itself, all Time is slowed to a stop.
Experiments show that exposure to awe-inducing images whales, waterfalls, and the like--slows down perception of time, leading to feelings that you have more of it.
Kleinzahler sometimes deploys another kind of line, always end-stopped and nearly unpunctuated, whose slow progress mimics perception itself: "There goes another plane / Its engines reverberating in the clouds / Now sirens too / Very like the sirens we heard only yesterday".
Research has indicated that awe seems to encourage collaboration, for one; it also appears to slow down our perception of the passage of time.
There is evidence that negative emotions can slow down our perception of time.[4] Our time is more focused on what we're going through when we're depressed, anxious, or bored, and so it will feel as though time is moving more slowly.
QUESTION FROM ALEXANDRA: I wonder though just because perception slows down, if it is any more accurate?
