Prediction, postdiction, and perceptual length contraction: A bayesian low-speed prior captures the cutaneous rabbit and related illusions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Goldreich, Daniel ^a   Tong, Jonathan ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kalman smoothing; Motion illusions; Optimal percepts; Probabilistic inference; Sensory saltation; Sensory uncertainty; Somatosensory spatiotemporal perception; Tactile spatial attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878905092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00221     Document Type: Article

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