The human visual system's assumption that light comes from above is weak

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 12551-12553

  Morgenstern, Yaniv ^a   Murray, Richard F ^a   Harris, Laurence R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D shape perception; Bayesian modelling; Visual psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BAYES THEOREM; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961055479     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100794108     Document Type: Article

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