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SUBMITTER: Ehinger BV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5433845 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ehinger Benedikt V BV Häusser Katja K Ossandón José P JP König Peter P
eLife 20170516
Humans often evaluate sensory signals according to their reliability for optimal decision-making. However, how do we evaluate percepts generated in the absence of direct input that are, therefore, completely unreliable? Here, we utilize the phenomenon of filling-in occurring at the physiological blind-spots to compare partially inferred and veridical percepts. Subjects chose between stimuli that elicit filling-in, and perceptually equivalent ones presented outside the blind-spots, looking for a ...[more]