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. 2018 Jan:41:e245.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18001437.

Perceptual suboptimality: Bug or feature?

Christopher Summerfield  1 , Vickie Li  1
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Perceptual suboptimality: Bug or feature?

Christopher Summerfield et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

Rahnev & Denison (R&D) argue that whether people are "optimal" or "suboptimal" is not a well-posed question. We agree. However, we argue that the critical question is why humans make suboptimal perceptual decisions in the first place. We suggest that perceptual distortions have a normative explanation - that they promote efficient coding and computation in biological information processing systems.

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