Stochastic process underlying emergent recognition of visual objects hidden in degraded images.

When a degraded two-tone image such as a "Mooney" image is seen for the first time, it is unrecognizable in the initial seconds. The recognition of such an image is facilitated by giving prior information on the object, which is known as top-down facilitation and has been intensively studi...

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Main Authors: Tsutomu Murata, Takashi Hamada, Tetsuya Shimokawa, Manabu Tanifuji, Toshio Yanagida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4277371?pdf=render