Electrophysiology Reveals That Intuitive Physics Guides Visual Tracking and Working Memory.

ABSTRACT: Starting in early infancy, our perception and predictions are rooted in strong expectations about the behavior of everyday objects. These intuitive physics expectations have been demonstrated in numerous behavioral experiments, showing that even pre-verbal infants are surprised when something impossible happens (e.g., when objects magically appear or disappear). However, it remains unclear whether and how physical expectations shape different aspects of moment-by-moment online visual scene processing, unrelated to explicit physical reasoning. In two EEG experiments, people watched short videos like those used in behavioral studies with adults and infants, and more recently in AI benchmarks. Objects moved on a stage, and were briefly hidden behind an occluder, with the scene either unfoldin

SUBMITTER: Balaban H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634321 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature