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Expectancy-based rhythmic entrainment as continuous Bayesian inference.
1Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Humans track complex rhythms by estimating timing expectations, going beyond simple entrainment. This predictive processing model explains covert and motor rhythm tracking, including responses to timing changes and omissions.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Computational Neuroscience
- Auditory Perception
Background:
- Human rhythm tracking involves complex temporal structure perception, exceeding simple oscillator entrainment.
- Existing models explain rhythm entrainment by event timing but lack computational principles for expectation-based processing.
- Predictive processing offers a framework to understand how timing expectations shape rhythm perception and motor control.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a computational framework for rhythm tracking based on predictive processing.
- To formalize rhythm tracking as phase and tempo estimation using novel inference problems.
- To model covert and motor rhythm tracking, incorporating uncertainty and expectation dynamics.
Main Methods:
- Developed two inference problems: Phase Inference from Point Process Event Timing (PIPPET) and Phase and Tempo Inference (PATIPPET).
- Derived variational solutions resembling Dynamic Attending models but including novel terms for uncertainty and expectation.
- Modeled human rhythm tracking characteristics, including error correction sensitivity and tempo perception changes.
Main Results:
- The proposed inference problems and their solutions explain key aspects of human rhythm tracking.
- The model accounts for sensitivity to inter-event intervals and tempo shifts due to event omissions.
- Novel influences on entrainment yield testable behavioral predictions and align with neurophysiological data.
Conclusions:
- Rhythm tracking can be understood as a continuous phase and tempo estimation problem within a predictive processing framework.
- The PIPPET and PATIPPET models offer a unified computational account of expectation-based entrainment.
- This framework provides a basis for interpreting experimental data and developing advanced predictive models of timing and active inference.

