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In his 1963a paper, Efron points out the importance of event identification and event ordering for the construction of meaning. Given that we live and thrive in a multisensory environment, Efron’s ‘unitary bits’ include information from multiple sensory modalities that may be complementary, contradictory or at some level of equivalence. The percept of these sensory ‘bits’ of information as synchronous and unified leads to the percept of a multisensory event rather than multiple, independent sensory events (Vatakis & Spence, 2010). Research to date has shown that the human perceptual system maintains the percept of synchrony between two sensory streams even though these streams may be processed/presented close but not exactly in time (Vatakis, 2013). The maintenance of a synchronous percept is accomplished through the hypothesized existence of a temporal window of integration (twi; i.e., the interval in which no signal discrepancy is perceived, anything beyond this interval will normally be perceived as being desynchronized or asynchronous; e.g., King, 2005; Spence & Squire, 2003; Vatakis & Spence, 2010; Vroomen & Keetels, 2010). We, thus, have ‘moments’ (or ‘functional moments’ as per Wittmann, 2011) that have no perceivable duration and can be perceived as simultaneous or ‘somewhat’ simultaneous (yet order cannot be perceived) and ‘moments’ that are successive with specific and detectable order of presentation (e.g., Pöppel, 1985, 2004;

Distorted Multisensory Experiences of Order and Simultaneity