Bayes and the Simplicity Principle in Perception

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 875-887

  Feldman, Jacob ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; likelihood; perceptual grouping; perceptual organization; simplicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BAYES THEOREM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350443603     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017144     Document Type: Article

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