perception and reality:why a wholly empirical paradigm is needed to understand vision

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A central puzzle in vision science is how perceptions that are routinely at odds with physical measurements of real world properties nonetheless elicit neural responses that lead to effective behaviors. Here we argue that the solution depends on: (1) rejecting the assumption that the goal of vision is to recover, however imperfectly, properties of the world; and (2) replacing it with a paradigm in which perceptions reflect biological utility based on past experience rather than objective features of the environment. Present evidence is consistent with the conclusion that conceiving vision in wholly empirical terms provides a plausible way to understand what we see and why.
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Authors ;Dale ePurves;Dale ePurves;Yaniv eMorgenstern;William Taylor Wojtach;William Taylor Wojtach
Journal Vacuum
Year 2015
DOI
10.3389/fnsys.2015.00156
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http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2015.00156/full
Keywords
visual perception vision efficient coding neuropsychiatry biological psychiatry

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