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The Role of Temporal Structure in Human VisionDepartment of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Department of Psychology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Gestalt psychologists identified several stimulus properties thought to underlie visual grouping and figure/ground segmentation, and among those properties was common fate: the tendency to group together individual objects that move together in the same direction at the same speed. Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in visual grouping based on other timedependent sources of visual information, including synchronized changes in luminance, in motion direction, and in figure/ ground relations. These various sources of temporal grouping information can be subsumed under the rubric temporal structure. In this article, the authors review evidence bearing on the effectiveness of temporal structure in visual grouping. They start with an overview of evidence bearing on temporal acuity of human vision, covering studies dealing with temporal integration and temporal differentiation. They then summarize psychophysical studies dealing with figure/ground segregation based on temporal phase differences in deterministic and stochastic events. The authors conclude with a brief discussion of neurophysiological implications of these results.
Key Words: visual grouping • temporal structure • common fate • temporal resolution • temporal integration • synchrony • figure/ground segmentation Visualperception
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, Vol. 4, No. 1,
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