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Ep31 "Why do we see #TheDress differently?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Making Sense of Ambiguous Signals

This chapter discusses how our brain processes ambiguous signals and imposes meaning on them. It explains how our expectations and prior assumptions play a major role in determining what we see and hear. The chapter also highlights that the majority of the visual experience is not solely dependent on the information received from our eyes, but rather on the feedback activity from higher levels of the visual system in the brain.

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