Orhan A Emin, Jacobs Robert A
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2014 Oct;76(7):2158-70. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0649-8.
Recent evidence from neuroimaging and psychophysics suggests common neural and representational substrates for visual perception and visual short-term memory (VSTM).Visual perception is adapted to a rich set of statistical regularities present in the natural visual environment. Common neural and representational substrates for visual perception and VSTM suggest that VSTM is adapted to these same statistical regularities too. This article discusses how the study of VSTM can be extended to stimuli that are ecologically more realistic than those commonly used in standard VSTM experiments and what the implications of such an extension could be for our current view of VSTM. We advocate for the development of unified models of visual perception and VSTM—probabilistic and hierarchical in nature— incorporating prior knowledge of natural scene statistics.
近期神经影像学和心理物理学的证据表明，视觉感知和视觉短期记忆（VSTM）存在共同的神经和表征基础。视觉感知适应于自然视觉环境中存在的丰富统计规律。视觉感知和VSTM的共同神经和表征基础表明，VSTM也适应于这些相同的统计规律。本文讨论了如何将VSTM的研究扩展到比标准VSTM实验中常用的刺激在生态上更现实的刺激，以及这种扩展对我们当前VSTM观点的影响。我们主张开发视觉感知和VSTM的统一模型——本质上是概率性和层次性的——纳入自然场景统计的先验知识。
