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The neurons that let us see what isn't there

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by pixl97

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When talking about vision and what you see and don't I like bringing up the Your Brain: Perception Deception Nova PBS episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6LfXNeQM4
Also Your Brain: Who's in control Nova PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6VOOd73MA

by kkylin

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Published paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02055-5
Preprint on biorxiv:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.05.543698v1

by layer8

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> In other words, [the visual system] makes “assumptions” about what we’re seeing based on what it already knows.
Presumably there are also “can’t unsee” neurons similar to that.