Visual Perception: Shaping What We See
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A new psychophysical study has examined the free flow of perception as observers viewed stimuli with several possible visual interpretations. The results suggest that our subjective impression of such ambiguous patterns may be more closely linked to the brain's encoding of complex shape than previously appreciated.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003