Late Bayesian inference in mental transformations

Humans compensate for sensory noise by biasing sensory estimates toward prior expectations, as predicted by models of Bayesian inference. Here, the authors show that humans perform ‘late inference’ downstream of sensory processing to mitigate the effects of noisy internal mental computations.

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Main Authors:	Evan D. Remington, Tiffany V. Parks, Mehrdad Jazayeri
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:	Nature Communications
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06726-9

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Late Bayesian inference in mental transformations

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