Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Cortical idiosyncrasies predict the perception of object size

  • Christina Moutsiana,
  • Benjamin de Haas,
  • Andriani Papageorgiou,
  • Jelle A. van Dijk,
  • Annika Balraj,
  • John A. Greenwood,
  • D. Samuel Schwarzkopf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12110
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Perceiving the size of objects is subjective. Here the authors show that these subjective differences in size perception can be explained by the individual variance in spatial tuning of neuronal populations in the primary visual cortex.