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Optimal Perceived Timing: Integrating Sensory Information with Dynamically Updated Expectations.

ABSTRACT: The environment has a temporal structure, and knowing when a stimulus will appear translates into increased perceptual performance. Here we investigated how the human brain exploits temporal regularity in stimulus sequences for perception. We find that the timing of stimuli that occasionally deviate from a regularly paced sequence is perceptually distorted. Stimuli presented earlier than expected are perceptually delayed, whereas stimuli presented on time and later than expected are perceptually accelerated. This result suggests that the brain regularizes slightly deviant stimuli with an asymmetry that leads to the perceptual acceleration of expected stimuli. We present a Bayesian model for the combination of dynamically-updated expectations, in the form of a priori probability of encountering future stimuli, with incoming sensory information. The asymmetries in the results are accounted for by the asymmetries in the distributions involved in the computational process.

SUBMITTER: Di Luca M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4935895 | biostudies-other | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Optimal Perceived Timing: Integrating Sensory Information with Dynamically Updated Expectations.

Di Luca Massimiliano M Rhodes Darren D

Scientific reports 20160707

The environment has a temporal structure, and knowing when a stimulus will appear translates into increased perceptual performance. Here we investigated how the human brain exploits temporal regularity in stimulus sequences for perception. We find that the timing of stimuli that occasionally deviate from a regularly paced sequence is perceptually distorted. Stimuli presented earlier than expected are perceptually delayed, whereas stimuli presented on time and later than expected are perceptually ...[more]

PMID: 27385184

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