Rats adopt the optimal timescale for evidence integration in a dynamic environment

In a dynamic environment old evidence could be outdated. Here, the authors investigate the ability of rats to integrate and discount evidence provided by auditory clicks to infer a hidden, dynamic, state of the world and model the consequence of sensory noise to explain the source of errors.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alex T. Piet, Ahmed El Hady, Carlos D. Brody
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06561-y