2023
DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.18.553834
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A dissociation between the use of implicit and explicit priors in perceptual inference

Caroline Bévalot,
Florent Meyniel

Abstract: The brain constantly uses prior knowledge of the statistics of its environment to shape perception. These statistics are often implicit (not directly observable) and gradually learned from observation; but they can also be explicitly communicated to the observer, especially in humans. In value-based decision-making, these priors are treated differently depending on their implicit or explicit origin creating the "experience-description gap". Here, we show that the same distinction also applies to perception. We… Show more

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