Topic: sensory context

Human perception is significantly influenced by sensory context. A classic demonstration is the tilt illusion, in which the perceived orientation of a center stimulus is altered by the orientation of a surround (Gibson \& Radner 1937). Previous research on the tilt illusion has primarily focused on how surround context alters the response characteristics of individual neurons (e.g., changes in gain and tuning curves), but connecting these observations at the level of single neurons to perceptual behavior remains challenging. More broadly, we still lack a functional and teleological account of