Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4034513 | Vision Research | 2010 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The influence of prejudice on perception should be greatest when certainty about stimulus identity is least. We exploited this relationship to reveal visual biases for the cardinal orientations: vertical and horizontal. Specifically, when we increased the variance of orientations in an array of grating patches, estimates of the mean became less oblique. This result is consistent with a stable prior, or prejudice, for those orientations most prevalent in natural scenes.
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Authors
Alessandro Tomassini, Michael J. Morgan, Joshua A. Solomon,