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In the three "nonaccidental" deaths, no assailant had ever been identified.

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In the middle column, all of the nonaccidental properties have been left intact; indeed, the fragments line up along smoothly fitting functions.

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The subjects had an extremely difficult time naming the objects when the nonaccidental properties were disrupted.

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In contrast, in the right column, the nonaccidental properties themselves have been deleted.

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In contrast, in the right column, the nonaccidental properties themselves have been deleted.

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It turns out, we can identify narrative features that correspond in important ways to these nonaccidental properties in vision.

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In something like the same way that an object can still be recognized even with much information removed so long as the nonaccidental features are preserved, so a story can still be recognized even when boiled down to a summary of just a few plot points.

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In the middle column, all of the nonaccidental properties have been left intact; indeed, the fragments line up along smoothly fitting functions.

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When the pictures were presented briefly, however, performance degraded--but never got as bad as performance when the nonaccidental properties were deleted.

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Referring to the chart again, what makes the items in the middle column identifiable as the items in the left is that those middle items preserve what Stephen Kosslyn called "nonaccidental properties"--high-information regions like vertices and edges that "line up along smoothly fitting functions."

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