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The world is complex, not just noisy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2019

Romain Brette Open the ORCID record for Romain Brette [Opens in a new window]
Romain Brette*
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Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, 75012 Paris, France. romain.brette@inserm.frhttp://romainbrette.fr
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Abstract

To deny that human perception is optimal is not to claim that it is suboptimal. Rahnev & Denison (R&D) point out that optimality is often ill defined. The fundamental issue is framing perception as a statistical inference problem. Outside of the lab, the real perceptual challenge is to determine the lawful structure of the world, not variables of a predetermined statistical model.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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