Infotropism as the underlying principle of perceptual organization

DOI10.1016/j.jmp.2014.08.002zbMath1309.91117OpenAlexW2109685162MaRDI QIDQ2263970

Chris Thornton

Publication date: 19 March 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/55224/1/underlying-infotropism.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

likelihoodinformation theoryperceptual organizationsimplicityOccam's razor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30) Mathematical psychology (91E99)

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