Learning what to expect (in visual perception)

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Seriès, Peggy ^a   Seitz, Aaron R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian priors; Expectations; Perceptual learning; Probabilistic inference; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84888120415     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00668     Document Type: Review

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