[Avery Andrews 960913:1051 Eastern Oz Time]
(David Wolsk 960912 at 1620 PST)
One of the cases that Sacks describes provides, I think, quite nice evidence
for a certain amount of modelling in the human perceptual system; this was
the woman whose motion detectors were knocked out. She found that she
couldn't deal with social situations or indeed almost any aspect of the
outside world because people, cars, etc. kept popping up in utterly
unexpected places. My inference being that our expectations about where
these things are going to be are highly influenced by a bit of integration
of the outputs of the motion-detectors.
Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au