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'''Visual temporal integration''' is a perceptual process of integrating a continuous, and rapid stream of information into discrete perceptual episodes or ‘events’. Arguably, integrating over small temporal windows, as opposed to sampling ‘snapshots’, allows the brain to evaluate visual information more reliably.<ref name="StanneyHale2014">{{cite book|author1=Kay Stanney|author2=Kelly S. Hale|title=Advances in Cognitive Engineering and Neuroergonomics|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6oVYBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA141|date=19 July 2014|publisher=Independent Publisher|isbn=978-1-4951-2101-2|pages=141–}}</ref> VTI by the brain reflects an important property of the world: the closer in time two pieces of information occur, the more likely it is that they will be part of the same ‘event’. Several other factors determine the brain’s integration window.<ref>[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814018710 "The Role of Temporal Integration Windows in Visual Perception"]. David Melcher, , Andreas Wutz, Jan Drewes, Scott Fairhall. ''Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences'', Volume 126, 21 March 2014, Pages 92–93 via ''Science Direct''.</ref>

One was in which scientists are studying visual temporal integration is by investigating the differences experienced by people with unusual ways of perceiving the world, for example through schizophrenia

One was in which scientists are studying visual temporal integration is by investigating the differences experienced by people with unusual ways of perceiving the world, for example through schizophrenia<ref name="ParisSarris1983">{{cite book|author1=Scott G. Paris|author2=Viktor Sarris|author3=Allen Parducci|coauthors=Gary M. Olson, Harold William Stevenson|title=Learning and motivation in the classroom|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UYORAAAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates|isbn=978-0-89859-273-3}}</ref><ref name="FreedmanSadock1980">{{cite book|author1=Alfred M. Freedman|author2=Benjamin J. Sadock|title=Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, III|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Gb9rAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Williams & Wilkins|isbn=978-0-683-03357-1|page=348}}</ref> or autism.<ref>{{cite book|title=Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research: 2011 Edition|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BIWBlV9TQB0C&pg=PT434|date=9 January 2012|publisher=ScholarlyEditions|isbn=978-1-4649-6335-3|pages=434–}}</ref>

or autism.<ref>{{cite book|title=Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research: 2011 Edition|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BIWBlV9TQB0C&pg=PT434|date=9 January 2012|publisher=ScholarlyEditions|isbn=978-1-4649-6335-3|pages=434–}}</ref>

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