title: Visual perception: early visual cortex fills in the gaps.
abstract: A new human fMRI study shows how early visual cortex makes sense of complex visual scenes by segregating foreground and background, and by highlighting outlier objects. The findings are consistent with two attractive theories: biased competition and predictive coding.
authors.affiliation: Vision and Cognition Lab, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-strasse 25, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: andreas.bartels@tuebingen.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartels
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008954:Models, Biological; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*