Top-down processing shapes perception of contested facts as well as vision.
Evidence
The role of ‘top-down’ processing will become more important once we start exploring how people perceive facts and evidence. If, based on our expectations, the brain is already filling in gaps when it comes to the basic visual perception of innocuous objects, how much of this is going on when we perceive potentially contested facts, science, and evidence based on our deeply held values and prior beliefs about the world? The fact of the matter is that the brain does a lot of top-down interpreting and not only when it comes to vision. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 64
Categorization
- SEED: The analogy between optical illusions and contested-fact perception could anchor an accessible explainer on motivated reasoning.
- XREF: connects to: Auditory perception runs parallel bottom-up and top-down processes — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1321; Auditory perceptual decisions are encoded diffusely across frontal and parietal cortex. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4891; The predictive brain fills in visual gaps based on expectation. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 62 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Auditory perception runs parallel bottom-up and top-down processes
#corroborates(0.80) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1321 - Auditory perceptual decisions are encoded diffusely across frontal and parietal cortex.
#expands(0.72) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4891