The example refering to rotating car wheels seeming to stand still can only be seen in "artificial" street light and not in direct sunlight. It is the lights Hz (refresh rate) that causes the illusion and not some "frame rate" in the brain.
Although the refresh rate of artificial light could be manipulated to create very interesting effects, even in natural light you can see wheels rotating backwards, or standing still, or forwards in slow motion, because of the exact thing mentioned in the article.
I was a kid when my dad worked with that, and I was always fascinated, I could keep staring at the spinning wheels during testing of our product for hours.
I would be curious to know if they had any estimate of the 'frame rate'
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....