How repeated video exposure changes what viewers can infer

Modern viewers understand cuts and implied continuity because decades of watching video have trained faster visual inference

Most people are unaware of how much video shorthands have advanced. In the early days if you cut from a woman at her dresser to her on the street people would get confused. How did she get there? Is it the same day? The more video you watch
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