Scene Regularity Interacts With Individual Biases to Modulate Perceptual Stability.

ABSTRACT: Sensory input is inherently ambiguous but our brains achieve remarkable perceptual stability. Prior experience and knowledge of the statistical properties of the world are thought to play a key role in the stabilization process. Individual differences in responses to ambiguous input and biases toward one or the other interpretation could modulate the decision mechanism for perception. However, the role of perceptual bias and its interaction with stimulus spatial properties such as regularity and element density remain to be understood. To this end, we developed novel bi-stable moving visual stimuli in which perception could be parametrically manipulated between two possible mutually exclusive interpretations: transparently or coherently moving. We probed perceptual stability across three c

SUBMITTER: Li Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6546877 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature