A person stares intently at a rapidly flickering light, experiencing increasingly vivid and distorted visual hallucinations. Which mechanism explains this altered perception?

💡 Explanation

Rapid flickering causes photoreceptor fatigue in the retina, leading to altered neural firing patterns being sent to the visual cortex; because the photoreceptors adapt unevenly, illusory colors and motion arise. Therefore, altered perception occurs, rather than edge suppression or signal enhancement.

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