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Asymmetries in Perception of 3D Orientation Allan C. Dobbins*, Jon K. Grossmann¤ Department of Biomedical Engineering Vision Science Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America Abstract Visual scene interpretation depends on assumptions based on the statistical regularities of the world. People have some preference for seeing ambiguously oriented objects (Necker cubes) as if tilted down or viewed from above. This bias is a near certainty in the first instant (,1 s) of viewing and declines over the course of many seconds. In addition, we found that there is modulation of perceived orientation that varies with position—for example objects on the left are more likely to be interpreted as viewed from the right. Therefore there is both a viewed-from-above prior and a scene position-dependent modulation of perceived 3-D orientation. These results are consistent with the idea that ambiguously oriented objects are initially assigned an orientation consistent with our experience of an asymmetric world in which objects most probably sit on surfaces below eye level. Citation: Dobbins AC, Grossmann JK (2010) Asymmetries in Perception of 3D Orientation. PLoS ONE 5(3): e9553. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009553 Editor: Sheng He, University of Minnesota, United States of America Received October 23, 2009; Accepted February 7, 2010; Published March 4, 2010 Copyright: 2010 Dobbins, Grossmann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported by the National Eye Institute (grant R01EY016874) to A.C.D. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.