How thinking can alter perception - Nature News 27.10.2010

On Nature online a news article reports about research by Cerf, M. et al. Nature 467, 1104-1108 (2010) which shows how humans can use thinking to alter perception of competing visual images

• Source: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101027/full/news.2010.568.html

In the news Dr. Moran Cerf gives an interesting interpretation of his EXPERIMENTS:

• "The environment offers some reality," he says, "but your own brain can shape it and override it with its internal deliberations." 
  

The THEORY for this has been developed in the last 40 years within the theory of knowing called Radical Constructivism http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/ 

Neurons as puppet masters

Antonio Damasio & Kaspar Meyer write in Nature 454, 167-168 (10 July 2008) "Convergence–Divergence Zones" (CDZs) – (‘mirror neurons’)  that mirror neurons act not so much as "mirrors" but "more like puppet masters, pulling the strings of various memories." 

Source: Recent research related to memory

The authors are dealing with neurons and brains, my allegory deals with thought and minds: not quite same, right?