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bistable perception  

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  • Human perception is amazingly efficient and usually stable despite the intrinsic ambiguity and uncertainty of sensory input. However, occasionally our sensory systems do fail to reach a single interpretation for a given input. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Bistable Perception]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/bistable_perception

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