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The present experiment focused on the perceptual organization of patterns whose structures could suggest the grouping of events into two intervals of equal duration. Subjects reproduced two series of patterns: in one, the suggested grouping intervals were initiated by external-world events, and in the other, they were not. The pattern structures in the latter series were not grouped as two intervals of equal duration. The patterns were instead grouped as two intervals of unequal duration, showing that the relative temporal positions of external-world events dominate in simple perceptual grouping.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, awarded to I. M. Franks.
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Franks, I.M., Canic, M.J. Perceptual organization of simple rhythmic sequences. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 30, 319–322 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330479
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