ABSTRACT
The concept of gating processes or intermittency in perception is not new and the idea that the brain operates by taking successive samples of sensory information at different points and times is supported by the discrete nature of perception. This gating process (i.e., the tendency for incoming information to be perceptually grouped in time) is supported by the very nature of eye movements (fixation sequences) and evoked potentials (Harter, 1967).
