Human trimodal perception follows optimal statistical inference

Human trimodal perception follows optimal statistical inference.

Our nervous system typically processes signals from multiple sensory modalities at any given moment and is therefore posed with two important problems: which of the signals are caused by a common event, and how to combine those signals. We investigated human perception in the presence of auditory, visual, and tactile stimulation in a numerosity judgment task. Observers were presented with stimu...

Humans ’ multisensory perception , from integration to segregation , follows Bayesian inference

Activity in human V1 follows multisensory perception

When a single brief visual flash is accompanied by two auditory bleeps, it is frequently perceived incorrectly as two flashes. Such illusory multisensory perception is associated with increased activation of retinotopic human primary visual cortex (V1) suggesting that such activity reflects subjective perception [Watkins, S., Shams, L., Tanaka, S., Haynes, J.D., Rees, G., 2006. Sound alters act...

Motion induced Animacy Perception as Optimal Inference

We often attribute the state of mind to inanimate things. This type of perception is called animacy perception. animacy perception is thought to be a part of theory of mind module as Fodor’s sense and is attracted much attention in function to social perception. Animacy perception was once said to be misleading perception because it was automatically triggered by inanimate thing. The range of p...

Statistical Inference for the Optimal Approximating Model

Abstract: In the setting of high-dimensional linear models with Gaussian noise, we investigate the possibility of confidence statements connected to model selection. Although there exist numerous procedures for adaptive (point) estimation, the construction of adaptive confidence regions is severely limited (cf. Li, 1989). The present paper sheds new light on this gap. We develop exact and adapt...