Cortical plasticity as a mechanism for storing Bayesian priors in sensory perception.
Human perception of ambiguous sensory signals is biased by prior experiences. It is not known how such prior information is encoded, retrieved and combined with sensory information by neurons. Previous authors have suggested dynamic encoding mechanisms for prior information, whereby top-down modulat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-05-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2864750?pdf=render |