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Poster Session B: Wednesday, August 13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, de Brug & E‑Hall

Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience

Paul Linton¹; ¹Columbia University

Presenter: Paul Linton

Do inferential models of vision provide us with models of visual experience? I argue they do not. Five new visual illusions suggest that real-world visual experience is much simpler than we previously thought. These new illusions suggest that real-world visual experience is not an inferential process. Instead, the visual inferences modelled by inferential models of vision reflect purely cognitive inferences about our visual experience and/or the world. These five illusions provide us with new ways to tease visual experience and purely cognitive inferences apart.

Topic Area: Predictive Processing & Cognitive Control

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