ReviewAnnual review of vision science2021
The Certainty of Ambiguity in Visual Neural Representations.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Determinants of visual ambiguity resolution.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Afterimages drive a shared visual motion-reversal illusion inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Perceptual resolution of ambiguity: A divisive normalization account for both interocular color grouping and difference enhancement.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Sound source ambiguity augments illusory mislocalisation of computer presented stomach rumbles to self.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Combined fMRI and eye-tracking evidence on the neural processing of visual ambiguity in photographic aesthetics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Context-Sensitive Conscious Interpretation and Layer-5 Pyramidal Neurons in Multistable Perception.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Bistable perception of symbolic numbers.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Ambiguity is a linking feature for interocular grouping.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Equivalent noise characterization of human lightness constancy.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Binocularly-driven competing neural responses and the perceptual resolution of color.Journal of vision · 2021Article
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Abstract
Some images evoke bistable percepts: two different visual experiences seen in alternation while continuously viewing an unchanged stimulus. The Necker Cube and Rubin's Vase are classic examples, each of which gives alternating percepts of different shapes. Other bistable percepts are alternating colors or directions of motion. Although stimuli that result in salient bistability are rare and sometimes cleverly constructed to emphasize ambiguity, they have been influential for over 150 years, since the work of von Helmholtz, who considered them to be evidence for perceptual visual processes that interpret retinal stimuli. While bistability in natural viewing is uncommon, the main point of this review is that implicit ambiguity in visual neural representations is pervasive. Resolving ambiguity, therefore, is a fundamental and ubiquitous process of vision that routinely affects what we see, not an oddity arising from cleverly crafted images. This review focuses on the causes of widespread ambiguity, historical perspectives on it, and modern knowledge and theory about resolving it.
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