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Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the cues that trigger the
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Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using video stimuli.
  • Participants viewed videos with missing causal links, varying familiarity, object trajectory, and spatiotemporal continuity.

Main Results:

  • The
  • effect occurred regardless of event familiarity.
  • Visible object trajectory continuation was sufficient to trigger the effect.
  • Discontinuities in spatiotemporal continuity significantly impacted the
  • effect more than object transformations.

Conclusions:

  • Spontaneous causal event representation formation prioritizes spatiotemporal information.
  • Object representation systems, not event schemas, primarily drive the
  • effect.
  • Perception relies on continuity principles to construct coherent event narratives.