A new model shows that a range of visual illusions in humans can be explained as rational inferences about the odds that a motion stimulus on the retina results from a particular real-world source.
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Geisler, W., Kersten, D. Illusions, perception and Bayes. Nat Neurosci 5, 508–510 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0602-508
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