Top-down influences on ambiguous perception: the role of stable and transient states of the observer
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience December 8, 2014 Lisa Scocchia, Matteo Valsecchi, Jochen Triesch 61 citations
The world as it appears to the viewer is the result of a complex process of inference performed by the brain. The validity of this apparently counter-intuitive assertion becomes evident whenever we face noisy, feeble or ambiguous visual stimulation: in these conditions, the state of the observer may play a decisive role in determining what is currently perceived. On this background, ambiguous...