The predictive brain fills in visual gaps based on expectation.

Evidence

Most of the time these two processes complement each other perfectly. Our brains are predictive, which is ‘why yuo can raed this’ But it only takes one optical illusion to reveal how easy it is to trick your brain into seeing something that isn’t there, simply because you expect to see it. Importantly, these optical illusions aren’t just for fun, they actually help our understanding of how reality is constructed. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 62

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The brain actively generates what it expects to see, not what is actually there — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 61; The brain creates search images by repeated pattern-and-feedback training — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 71; Top-down processing shapes perception of contested facts as well as vision. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 64 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Top-down processing shapes perception of contested facts as well as vision. #expands (0.85) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 64
• Perception is a brain interpretation that need not use all sensory detail #corroborates (0.80) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1323
• The brain creates search images by repeated pattern-and-feedback training #exemplifies (0.78) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 71