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ReviewAnnual review of psychology2026

The Temporal Scaffolding of Sensory Organization.

Pawan Sinha, Lukas Vogelsang, Marin Vogelsang, Albert Yonas, Sidney Diamond

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Review in Annual review of psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Intact Visual Correlation Detection in Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Pawan SinhaDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; email: psinha@mit.edu.
Lukas VogelsangDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; email: psinha@mit.edu.
Marin VogelsangDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; email: psinha@mit.edu.
Albert YonasInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Sidney DiamondDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; email: psinha@mit.edu.

Funding

Project Prakash: Development of Object Perception After Late Sight OnsetR01EY020517 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SINHA, PAWAN · 2011 to 2025
$8.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY020517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How a developing nervous system discovers meaning in complex sensory inputs has typically been examined separately for each sensory modality. Even as studies have uncovered modality-specific strategies, it remains unclear whether common principles underlie such discovery. Here, we pursue the thesis that the detection and exploitation of temporal regularities may provide a unifying mechanism for sensory organization across modalities. We synthesize research spanning neurophysiology and cognitive neuroscience and incorporate results from theoretical computer science. This integration supports the conclusion that time may be the fundamental dimension along which the brain organizes its sensorium and that the computational complexity of this problem is rendered tractable by ecologically appropriate heuristics. This proposal suggests the centrality of temporal processing in perceptual development, with implications for studies of typical and atypical development, clinical populations, and computational modeling.

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BrainPerceptionSensationTime PerceptionHumanscontiguitycontingencyperceptual developmentsimultaneitytemporal regularity detection

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PMID41032576
PMCPMC13546142

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