Visual perception: Contours that crack the ambiguity conundrum.

Curr Biol

Department of Experimental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, Germany, and Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, Universities of Marburg, Giessen and Darmstadt, Germany. Electronic address:

Published: July 2023

A new study shows how the brain exploits the parts of images where surfaces curve out of view to recover both the three-dimensional shape and material properties of objects. This sheds light on a long-standing 'chicken-and-egg' problem in perception research.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.024DOI Listing

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