Dubious Claims about Simplicity and Likelihood: Comment on Pinna and Conti (2019)

Brain Sciences

PeterA. van der Helm¹ 

[1] Department of Brain &

关键词: contrast polarity;    perceptual organization;    simplicity principle;    likelihood principle;    simplicity–likelihood equivalence;    bayes;    classical information theory;    modern information theory;   

DOI  :  10.3390/brainsci10010050

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Pinna and Conti (Brain Sci., 2019, 9, 149, doi:10.3390/brainsci9060149) presented phenomena concerning the salience and role of contrast polarity in human visual perception, particularly in amodal completion. These phenomena are indeed illustrative thereof, but here, the focus is on their claims (1) that neither simplicity nor likelihood approaches can account for these phenomena; and (2) that simplicity and likelihood are equivalent. I argue that their first claim is based on incorrect assumptions, whereas their second claim is simply untrue.

【 授权许可】

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