The likelihood principle states that the visual system prefers the most likely interpretation of a
stimulus, whereas the simplicity principle states that it prefers the most simple interpretation …

Discussions of the foundations of perceptual inference have often centered on 2 governing
principles, the likelihood principle and the simplicity principle. Historically, these principles …

Structural information theory is a coherent theory about the way the human visual system
organises a raw visual stimulus into objects and object parts. To humans, a visual stimulus …

The likelihood principle, originally formulated by Helmholtz, states that the preferred
perceptual organization of a sensory pattern reflects the most likely object or event. This …

We examine a number of investigations of perceptual economy or, more specifically, of
minimum tendencies and minimum principles in the visual perception of form, depth, and …

When humans perceive the environment, angular units of visual information must be
transformed into units appropriate for the specification of such parameters of surface layout …

In the study of perceptual organization, the Occamian simplicity principle (which promotes
efficiency) and the Helmholtzian likelihood principle (which promotes veridicality) have been …

In his article Manfredi (this volume) makes (what seems to us to be) a number of sound
points concerning the relations between information processing and ecological approaches …

The simplicity principle, traditionally referred to as Occam's razor, is the idea that simpler
explanations of observations should be preferred to more complex ones. In recent decades …

It is proposed that the cognitive system imposes patterns on the world according to a
simplicity principle: Choose the pattern that provides the briefest representation of the …