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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Decision-Making Science

Background:

  • Successful decision-making relies on predicting uncertain future events.
  • Predictive representations include uncertainty levels, influencing belief updating.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if uncertainty-modulated learning occurs spontaneously without explicit prediction tasks.
  • To explore spontaneous predictive inference using gaze dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a gaze-based predictive inference paradigm.
  • Analyzed spontaneous gaze dynamics and anticipatory gaze variability.
  • Assessed feedback-driven updating of gaze-based predictions.

Main Results:

  • Predictive inference was observed in spontaneous gaze dynamics.
  • Gaze-based predictions adapted to environmental statistics.
  • Anticipatory gaze variability tracked predictive uncertainty.

Conclusions:

  • Sophisticated predictive inference can occur spontaneously.
  • Oculomotor behavior provides a multidimensional readout of internal predictive beliefs.