Study Details

Title:

Prediction effects in early visual perception

Researcher:

Cheryl Olman   

Contact:

oliv@umn.edu

Term:

Fall 2024

Description:

This study is part of a research program that seeks to understand creative visual processes in the brain. Visual perception is only 10% feedforward (driven by input from the eyes); the rest of our perception is created by neural networks in the brain that have learned from past experiences and use these past experiences to generate predictions about the external world. This creative process in visual neural networks simplifies the process of perceiving the world, but we do not yet know how it works. The experiments in this study attempt to quantify visual experiences that are created by the brain.

Delivery Format:

Live (in-person or remote)

Maximum number of sessions:

1

Maximum Time Commitment:

60 minutes

Maximum REP Point Award:

4

Requirements:

• 18 and over
• Normal (or corrected) vision