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Direct linkAdams, Wendy J. – Cognition, 2008
Faced with highly complex and ambiguous visual input, human observers must rely on prior knowledge and assumptions to efficiently determine the structure of their surroundings. One of these assumptions is the "light-from-above" prior. In the absence of explicit light-source information, the visual system assumes that the light-source is roughly…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Prior Learning, Cognitive Processes, Observation
