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Temporal integration windows for naturalistic visual sequences.

Scott L Fairhall¹, Angela Albi¹, David Melcher¹

¹Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

|July 11, 2014

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The brain integrates sensory information over 2-3 seconds, forming our subjective present. This study confirms this temporal integration window applies to complex, naturalistic visual experiences like movies.

Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Visual Perception

Background:

The brain integrates sensory information over 2-3 second intervals.
This temporal integration is proposed to underlie the subjective present.
Its presence in naturalistic experiences is a critical test.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if the 2-3 second temporal integration window applies to naturalistic visual stimuli.
To test the hypothesis using temporally scrambled movie clips.

Main Methods:

Two independent experiments used movie clips as naturalistic visual stimuli.
Temporal scrambling of movie clips required re-integration within and beyond the 2-3 second interval.
Analysis controlled for low-level visual properties.

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Main Results:

A step-wise increase in difficulty to follow stimuli was observed at the 2-3 second scrambling condition.
This effect was independent of low-level visual properties.
This provides the first evidence for this integration window in complex visual sequences.

Conclusions:

The brain's 2-3 second temporal integration window extends to complex, naturalistic visual sequences.
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