Perceptions as Hypotheses: Saccades as Experiments
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Perceptions as Hypotheses: Saccades as Experiments
If perception corresponds to hypothesis testing (Gregory, 1980); then visual searches might be construed as experiments that generate sensory data. In this work, we explore the idea that saccadic eye movements are optimal experiments, in which data are gathered to test hypotheses or beliefs about how those data are caused. This provides a plausible model of visual search that can be motivated f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00151