The parieto-occipital cortex is a candidate neural substrate for the human ability to approximate Bayesian inference
Abstract Adaptive decision-making often requires one to infer unobservable states based on incomplete information. Bayesian logic prescribes that individuals should do so by estimating the posterior probability by integrating the prior probability with new information, but the neural basis of this i...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2024-02-01
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Series: | Communications Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05821-6 |