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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tesileanu T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7494356 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20200803
Previously, in Hermundstad et al., 2014, we showed that when sampling is limiting, the efficient coding principle leads to a 'variance is salience' hypothesis, and that this hypothesis accounts for visual sensitivity to binary image statistics. Here, using extensive new psychophysical data and image analysis, we show that this hypothesis accounts for visual sensitivity to a large set of grayscale image statistics at a striking level of detail, and also identify the limits of the prediction. We d ...[more]