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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access Spatial and temporal proximity as factors in shape recognition Ernest Greene*1,2 Address: 1Laboratory for Neurometric Research, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA and 2Neuropsychology Foundation, Sun Valley, CA 91353, USA Email: Ernest Greene* - egreene@ * Corresponding author Published: 5 June 2007 Received: 27 March 2007 Accepted: 5 June 2007 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2007, 3:27 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-3-27 This article is available from: /content/3/1/27 © 2007 Greene; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Prior research from this laboratory examined minimal stimulus conditions that allow for recognition of objects. Using briefly flashed dots that marked the outer border of objects, it was found that timing differentials within and among successive dot pairs affected recognition, with significant declines being seen by the addition of temporal separations in the millisecond range. These experiments were done with dot pairs that had close spatial proximity, which leaves open the possibility that the effects could be attributed to strictly local neural encoding processes. The