Cardinal rules: Visual orientation perception reflects knowledge of environmental statistics

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 926-932

  Girshick, Ahna R ^a   Landy, Michael S ^a   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959683947     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2831     Document Type: Article

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