Vision: efficient adaptive coding

David Burr; Guido Marco Cicchini

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.002

Vision: efficient adaptive coding

Curr Biol. 2014 Nov 17;24(22):R1096-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.002. Epub 2014 Nov 17.

Authors

David Burr¹, Guido Marco Cicchini²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology and Child Health, University of Florence, Via S. Salvi 12, Florence, Italy; Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56124, Italy. Electronic address: dave@in.cnr.it.
² Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56124, Italy.

Abstract

Recent studies show that perception is driven not only by the stimuli currently impinging on our senses, but also by the immediate past history. The influence of recent perceptual history on the present reflects the action of efficient mechanisms that exploit temporal redundancies in natural scenes.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Face*
Female
Humans
Male
Visual Perception / physiology*

Grants and funding

338866/ERC_/European Research Council/International