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How does the human visual cortex encode perceptual groups?

How does the human visual cortex encode perceptual groups?

by nata004 | Jul 31, 2018 | Research, Vision Neuroscience

If you have ever stargazed under an unfamiliar sky (such as after moving from another hemisphere), you have experienced the startling ability of the human visual system to generate patterns from noise. Stars in the night sky are placed essentially at random, yet our...
Object-Knowledge Sharpens Vision

Object-Knowledge Sharpens Vision

by Chris Phillips | Jul 24, 2018 | Research, Vision Neuroscience

It is widely held that the brain derives object information from features of images. The predictive coding approach holds that object information should influence feature processing. We tested this idea using ambiguous stimuli such as the one on the right. Initially...
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