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SUBMITTER: Wilder J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4429927 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wilder John J Feldman Jacob J Singh Manish M
Journal of vision 20150101 6
Itis well-known that "smooth" chains of oriented elements-contours-are more easily detected amid background noise than more undulating (i.e., "less smooth") chains. Here, we develop a Bayesian framework for contour detection and show that it predicts that contour detection performance should decrease with the contour's complexity, quantified as the description length (DL; i.e., the negative logarithm of probability integrated along the contour). We tested this prediction in two experiments in wh ...[more]