The advantage of ambiguity? Enhanced neural responses to multi-stable percepts correlate with the degree of perceived instability

Artwork can often pique the interest of the viewer or listener as a result of the ambiguity or instability contained within it. Our engagement with uncertain sensory experiences might have its origins in early cortical responses, in that perceptually unstable stimuli might preclude neural habituatio...

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Main Author: Ben eDyson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00073/full