Motion processing
Using an innovative approach that built computational models predicting brain responses to novel stimuli, we showed that the brain response in visual areas to a moving stimulus is fully explained by the linear combination of responses to independent non-moving stimuli (Poncet & Ales, 2020). This result challenges the current models of motion perception and suggests that motion, as humans experience it, is not just a straightforward calculation from low-level stimulus properties but includes high-level cognitive interpretations of the visual signals. We are currently investigating this question. More to come!
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