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Paul Linton is a NOMIS Foundation Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies and an Affiliate of the Visual Inference Lab at Columbia University's Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. His work bridges visual perception, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, focusing on challenging traditional inferential models of vision through novel illusions and theoretical frameworks.
- Focus Areas: 3D vision, depth perception, perceptual-cognitive distinction, visual illusions.
Research Highlights: Linton proposes that 3D visual shape reflects uncorrected retinal disparities rather than environmental geometry, linking this to cognitive inferences about scale. He developed five groundbreaking illusions (e.g., Linton Stereo Illusion, Linton Scale Illusion) to demonstrate that visual experience is simpler than previously thought, with cognitive processes driving apparent depth and size constancy.
Publications span topics like stereopsis, monocular depth cues, and the physiology of V1. His 2025 preprint on five illusions and 2023 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B article are pivotal. Awards include the NOMIS Fellowship and Presidential Scholar at Columbia.
Collaborations include Niko Kriegeskorte’s lab and the MIT Consciousness Club. He organizes events like the Royal Society’s New Approaches to 3D Vision and contributes to debates on computational consciousness and metacognitive science.
