Chapter Eight
Past experience and meaning affect object detection: A hierarchical Bayesian approach
Mary A. Peterson* Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States* Corresponding author: email address: mapeters@email.arizona.edu
Abstract
For human perceivers, object perception seems immediate and unambiguous. Following the Gestalt reaction against structuralism over 100 years ago, it was long held that serial feedforward processing could account for object perception and that past experience and object meaning played no role because these were assumed to be activated only after objects were detected. We now know that this approach is inadequate: Our systematic investigation of past experience effects has revealed that ...
