Synchrony Does Not Promote Grouping in Temporally Structured Displays

H. Farid and E.H. Adelson

Nature Neuroscience, 4(9):875-876, 2001

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It has been hypothesized that the human visual system can use temporal synchrony to bind image regions into unified objects, as proposed in some neural models. We present experimental results from a new dynamic stimulus suggesting that previous evidence for this hypothesis can be explained with the well-established mechanisms of early visual processing, thus obviating the need to posit new synchrony sensitive grouping mechanisms.