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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Rapidly learned stimulus expectations alter perception of motion
<28> Originality: Using a new statistical learning experimental protocol and modeling, we showed that human observers rapidly (i.e. in minutes) and implicitly develop expectations about visual features of the visual scene, which can powerfully influence their perception, in the form of biases and hallucinations.
Significance: Protocol was shown to be very useful for characterizing learning of expectations and whether/in which conditions humans are "Bayesian optimal". Now used in several follow-up experiments in healthy subjects and schizophrenia.
Rigour: Published in the best specialized journal in this field, Journal of Vision (impact factor 2.8). We have recently replicated the main results.
