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The role of statistics in perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2001

Horace Barlow
Affiliation:
Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom hbb10@cam.ac.uk www.physiol.cam.ac.uk/staff/barlow
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Abstract

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Hoffman is worried that perception itself leaves no time for the computation and compilation of statistics, but this has never been proposed. It is the underlying mechanisms that are thought to have evolved in response to the statistics of sensory stimulation, and which are capable of adjusting their parameters in response to changes in these statistics.

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