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Human spatial perception adapts to conflicting sensory information. Repeated auditory-visual spatial conflict recalibrates the brain

Keywords:
Bayesianadaptationcausal inferencemultisensoryperceptionrecalibrationspatial localizationventriloquist aftereffect

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Psychophysics

Background:

  • Human perception relies on probabilistic inference, integrating sensory evidence with prior knowledge.
  • Previous studies primarily examined perception in static environments, leaving adaptation mechanisms under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To computationally characterize changes in auditory spatial perception after exposure to auditory-visual spatial conflict (ventriloquist aftereffect).
  • To investigate how the brain adapts its internal models of space in response to sensory discrepancies.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a Bayesian causal inference model to quantitatively estimate perceptual parameters for individual observers.
  • Exposed participants to repeated auditory-visual spatial conflict to induce the ventriloquist aftereffect.

Main Results:

  • Found that the ventriloquist aftereffect is associated with a shift in the auditory likelihood function towards the visual stimulus.
  • Demonstrated that the nervous system attributes auditory-visual discrepancies to sensory representation errors.

Conclusions:

  • The brain recalibrates its internal spatial map in response to consistent sensory conflict.
  • This recalibration serves to correct perceived sensory errors and adapt to new environmental statistics.