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Human beings have coherent perceptual experiences from a scene having various features, although human visual system is comprised of separate areas that are functionally specialized to process different visual features such as color, motion, shape and orientation. This induces the 'binding problem', which is the issue of combining the features processed at separate visual areas. Binding problem had been studied using temporal as well as spatial illusory binding of visual features. We hypothesized that temporal binding would be affected by a spatial factor. We tested whether the perceptual synchrony of the features presented in the central region affected the perceptual synchrony of the features presented in the peripheral region. The results imply that the perceptual synchrony at a central region promotes the perceptual synchrony at a peripheral region and that the temporal binding is affected by the spatial factor.
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