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SUBMITTER: de Winkel KN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882842 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
de Winkel Ksander N KN Katliar Mikhail M Diers Daniel D Bülthoff Heinrich H HH
Scientific reports 20180403 1
The perceptual upright is thought to be constructed by the central nervous system (CNS) as a vector sum; by combining estimates on the upright provided by the visual system and the body's inertial sensors with prior knowledge that upright is usually above the head. Recent findings furthermore show that the weighting of the respective sensory signals is proportional to their reliability, consistent with a Bayesian interpretation of a vector sum (Forced Fusion, FF). However, violations of FF have ...[more]