A Bayesian observer model constrained by efficient coding can explain 'anti-Bayesian' percepts

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1509-1517

  Wei, Xue Xin ^a   Stocker, Alan A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CODING; HUMAN; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84942426035     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4105     Document Type: Article

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