Free-energy and illusions: The Cornsweet effect

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Brown, Harriet ^a   Friston, Karl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Cornsweet effect; Free energy; Illusions; Perception; Perceptual priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865430901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00043     Document Type: Article

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