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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Main Authors: Nicholas M. Singletary, Jacqueline Gottlieb, Guillermo Horga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05821-6