Although there are well-validated interviews and self-reports for assessing SLE on proximate events, unfortunately there are no instruments to assess SLE covering an entire lifetime.
We could appeal to the principle that there can be no action at a temporal distance, so that something distantly past can only causally affect us via more proximate events.
As such, it seems unlikely that this effect reflects a difference in memory load, particular to the design of Experiments 1 and 2, and/or a violation of the assumptions underlying standard models of SDT, particular to Experiment 3. The results of Experiments 1 to 3 showed that AV timing sensitivity could be enhanced by the presence of an additional, temporally proximate, visual event.
When an AV pair is presented in isolation, there may be a strong perceptual tendency to group these two events due to a lack of any other, temporally more proximate, candidate events.
This shows that AV speech timing sensitivity can be enhanced by the presence of additional, temporally proximate, sensory events.
These data are therefore consistent with the suggestion that the extent of the AV simultaneity window is dynamic, shaped by the presence of additional temporally proximate sensory events [25].
This indicates that the results of Experiment 1, revealing an advantage for AV timing sensitivity in the presence of additional, temporally proximate, sensory events, is not limited to stimuli with complex temporal profiles, such as AV speech, but can also be found when using very basic stimuli.
We believe that we have shown that the sensitivity of human AV timing perception has been systematically underestimated by experiments that use isolated pairs of audio and visual events, as temporally proximate cross modal events tend to group perceptually, and to seem synchronous as a consequence.
However, some great extensional faulting events have happened in the outer trench slope environment with no proximate large thrust event, such as the 1977 Sumba (Mw 8.4) (Lynnes and Lay, 1988) and 2009 Samoa (Mw 8.1) (Lay et al, 2010) earthquakes which occurred seaward of what appear to be seismically weakly-coupled subduction zones.
Experience has shown that the burden of disaster medical response largely falls to healthcare facilities proximate to an event.
