Interhemispheric multisensory perception and Bayesian causal inference

Autor: Hongqiang Huo, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhili Tang, Ying Dong, Di Zhao, Duo Chen, Min Tang, Xiaofeng Qiao, Xin Du, Jieyi Guo, Jinghui Wang, Yubo Fan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: iScience, Vol 26, Iss 5, Pp 106706- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2589-0042
27213129
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106706
Popis: Summary: In daily life, our brain needs to eliminate irrelevant signals and integrate relevant signals to facilitate natural interactions with the surrounding. Previous study focused on paradigms without effect of dominant laterality and found that human observers process multisensory signals consistent with Bayesian causal inference (BCI). However, most human activities are of bilateral interaction involved in processing of interhemispheric sensory signals. It remains unclear whether the BCI framework also fits to such activities. Here, we presented a bilateral hand-matching task to understand the causal structure of interhemispheric sensory signals. In this task, participants were asked to match ipsilateral visual or proprioceptive cues with the contralateral hand. Our results suggest that interhemispheric causal inference is most derived from the BCI framework. The interhemispheric perceptual bias may vary strategy models to estimate the contralateral multisensory signals. The findings help to understand how the brain processes the uncertainty information coming from interhemispheric sensory signals.
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