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How the brain tricks itself into perceiving unambiguous depthStereogram experiments confirm that higher visual areas use feedback to censor conflicting visual cues.
The world in mindHeinrich Bülthoff's work shaped modern psychophysics, the scientific discipline that studies the relationship between impulses and their perception.
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