Visual perception: bizarre contours go against the odds
- PMID: 21481763
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.02.012
Visual perception: bizarre contours go against the odds
Abstract
A new study shows that the brain sometimes invents visual contours even when they would be highly unlikely to occur in the real world. This presents a challenge to theories assuming that the brain prefers the most probable interpretation of the retinal image.
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Non-Bayesian contour synthesis.Curr Biol. 2011 Mar 22;21(6):492-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.02.011. Epub 2011 Mar 3. Curr Biol. 2011. PMID: 21376597
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