The Role of Prediction in Vision

The brain has learned that faces are nearly always, in its experience, more or less always, convex. And so those predictions of convexity actually trump a lot of the genuine visual information which would be otherwise telling your brain what you're seeing. We did mention one earlier where you hear the gaps between the words, where those gaps aren't really there. They're kind of inserted by the brain because that's the way it finds it easiest to predict the sensory stream. You could also look at those things, the cases you hear on the web. If you put that into Google, you will get a little sound file where if you're looking at the words green needle, it will

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