Christoph Koenig

The post-hoc montage of perception: deep layers of primary visual cortex encode postdictive percepts

One of the most puzzling aspects of perception is postdiction: later information can change how a previous stimulus is perceived [1,2]. This indicates that perception is not a livestream of the external world, but rather a post-hoc reconstruction. How does the brain revise perception? It has been proposed that recurren...