Visual Perception: Ambiguity Involving Parietal Cortex
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Visual Perception: Ambiguity Involving Parietal Cortex
Our brain is constantly interpreting ambiguous sensory input to deliver a stable perceptual representation of the environment. Two new studies suggest that superior parietal cortex plays a causal role in resolving perceptual ambiguity. Ironically, their results are somewhat ambiguous as to what that role might be.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.026