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SUBMITTER: Girshick AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3125404 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature neuroscience 20110605 7
Humans are good at performing visual tasks, but experimental measurements have revealed substantial biases in the perception of basic visual attributes. An appealing hypothesis is that these biases arise through a process of statistical inference, in which information from noisy measurements is fused with a probabilistic model of the environment. However, such inference is optimal only if the observer's internal model matches the environment. We found this to be the case. We measured performance ...[more]