| Title | What's next? New evidence for prediction in human vision. | | Author(s) | Enns JT, Lleras A | | Institution | Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada. jenns@psych.ubc.ca | | Source | Trends Cogn Sci 2008 Sep; 12(9):327-33. | | MeSH | Awareness
Fixation, Ocular
Humans
Memory
Models, Biological
Reaction Time
Time Factors
Vision, Ocular
Visual Perception
| | Abstract | Everyday visual experience involves making implicit predictions, as revealed by our surprise when something disturbs our expectations. Many theories of vision have been premised on the central role played by prediction. Yet, implicit prediction in human vision has been difficult to assess in the laboratory, and many results have not distinguished between the indisputably important role of memory and the future-oriented aspect of prediction. Now, a new and unexpected finding - that humans can resume an interrupted visual search much faster than they can start a new search - offers new hope, because the rapid resumption of a search seems to depend on participants forming an implicit prediction of what they will see after the interruption. These findings combined with results of recent neurophysiology studies provide a framework for studying implicit prediction in perception. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
| | PubMed ID | 18684660 |
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