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SUBMITTER: Toscani M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3704015 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toscani Matteo M Valsecchi Matteo M Gegenfurtner Karl R KR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130617 27
The variable resolution and limited processing capacity of the human visual system requires us to sample the world with eye movements and attentive processes. Here we show that where observers look can strongly modulate their reports of simple surface attributes, such as lightness. When observers matched the color of natural objects they based their judgments on the brightest parts of the objects; at the same time, they tended to fixate points with above-average luminance. When we forced partici ...[more]