ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we shall begin our discussion of a different set of dimensions and a different set of problems than the intensive ones emphasized in Chapter 6. The temporal and spatial dimensions we shall discuss are surprisingly closely linked in any psychobiological analysis, and often it is impossible to separate them without losing the meaningfulness of the data. It is the main purpose of this chapter to show how these two domains-the temporal and spatial-are linked and then to present both psychophysical and neurophysiological evidence that will help to establish the relationship between the perceptual and neurophysiological findings.