Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Statistically defined visual chunks engage object-based attention

  • Gábor Lengyel,
  • Márton Nagy,
  • József Fiser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20589-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The study reports that implicitly learned, statistically defined chunks of abstract visual shapes elicit similar object-based perceptual effects as images of true objects with visual boundaries do. This result links the emergence of object representations to implicit statistical learning mechanisms.