The Impact of Our Past on Perception.
Our past experiences influence our current perceptions, resulting in a distorted representation of reality. The occipital cortex retains traces of past images, intensifying perceptual bias, and the brain combines present sensory information with past data, creating its own version of reality. This phenomenon helps the brain find regularities, making the external world more predictable and manageable. The study was conducted by SISSA and used EEG signals to observe the perceptual bias.