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Gambling on limited information: our visual system and probabilistic inference

  • Written by Alex Burmester, Research Associate in Perception and Memory, New York University
imageWhat makes your brain go all-in on what it thinks you're seeing?Chips image via www.shutterstock.com.

Imagine walking along in the African savanna. Suddenly you notice a moving bush partially obscuring a large yellow object. From this limited information, you need to figure out if you’re in danger and decide how to react. Is it a pile of dry...

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