It's About Time

摘要

A number of experimental studies, e.g., [Geldard and Sher-rick, 1972; Kolers and von Gruenau, 1976] have suggested that interpretations of events can override direct sensory evidence. For example, for some sequences of perceptual events of short duration, the interpretation of individual events in the sequence depends on the characteristics of the sequence as a whole. This 'backwards referral in time', in which later events influence the perception of earlier events, is difficult to account for within a serial model of cognition without incorporating implausible delays (basically delaying sensory experience "until all the data is in").