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Earlier work of Sekuler and his associates on visual temporal order is replicated, with a similar experimental paradigm. Our results, as those of Sekuler, suggest an internal mechanism that scans visual inputs in a left-to-right order, but also suggest that such internal scans may also proceed in top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top orders.
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This research was supported in part by Grants BG22785 and BNS75-09800 A02 to M. S. Mayzner.
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Mayzner, M.S., Agresti, W.W. On an illusion of visual temporal order. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 12, 451–452 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329734
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