title: The perception of transparent three-dimensional objects.
abstract: When the proximal and distal elements of wire-frame cubes are conflated, observers perceive illusory structures that no longer behave veridically. These phenomena suggest that what we normally see depends on visual associations generated by experience. The necessity of such learning may explain why the mammalian visual system is subject to a prolonged period of plasticity in early life, when novel circuits are made in enormous numbers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Box 3209, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. purves@neuro.duke.edu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Purves
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Andrews
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008322:Mammals; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009039:Motion Perception; D011187:Posture; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology