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    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Science
    • Neuroscience
    • Computational Modeling

    Background:

    • Humans utilize sophisticated mental representations to guide behavior in daily activities.
    • It remains unclear if these representations (priors in Bayesian inference) are task-specific or shared across multiple tasks.
    • Existing methods struggle to extract comparable representations across diverse tasks, hindering the distinction between task-specific and shared priors.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel method, cognitive tomography, for extracting multidimensional priors across different tasks.
    • To investigate whether human priors over naturalistic stimuli are task-specific or shared.
    • To predict behavior in novel situations using extracted priors.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed "cognitive tomography" to extract complex, multidimensional priors across tasks.
    • Applied the method to human judgments in "familiarity" and "odd one out" tasks using human face stimuli.
    • Analyzed the structure and cross-task invariance of priors within individual subjects.

    Main Results:

    • Extracted priors over faces were structurally complex and varied significantly between subjects.
    • Crucially, these priors were invariant across the "familiarity" and "odd one out" tasks within each subject.
    • Priors from one task accurately predicted behavior in both the same and the other task for novel stimuli.

    Conclusions:

    • Provided the first evidence for a single, high-dimensional, structured representation guiding behavior across multiple tasks.
    • Demonstrated that cognitive tomography can extract behavior-based neural correlates of complex naturalistic priors.
    • Suggests a unified representational system underlies cognitive flexibility in humans.