A functional theory of bistable perception based on dynamical circular inference.

When we face ambiguous images, the brain cannot commit to a single percept; instead, it switches between mutually exclusive interpretations every few seconds, a phenomenon known as bistable perception. While neuromechanistic models, e.g., adapting neural populations with lateral inhibition, may acco...

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Main Authors: Pantelis Leptourgos, Vincent Bouttier, Renaud Jardri, Sophie Denève
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008480