Topic: mesoscale two-photon microscopy

Perception is not a faithful representation of the sensory world; rather, it is an inference of the most likely explanation given sensory evidence. Illusions arise due to rational mistakes in perceptual inference, exemplifying the dichotomy between faithful representation and inferred representation. We utilized illusory contours to ask how and where perceptual inference is encoded in the mouse visual cortex. In illusory contour perception, the perceived whole is greater than the sum of its parts. As such, we hypothesized that brain regions encoding perceptual inference would show enhanced neu