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  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Sensory Systems

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  • Accurate self-motion perception is crucial for adaptive behavior in dynamic environments.
  • Multisensory integration, combining visual, vestibular, and kinesthetic inputs, underlies this process.
  • Ideal observer models have elucidated heading perception from visual and vestibular signals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend multisensory decision-making models to incorporate confidence in heading discrimination.
  • To investigate the role of time and certainty in multisensory decisions for navigation.
  • To bridge the gap between self-motion perception and navigation through advanced experimental paradigms.

Main Methods:

  • Summarizing a leading model for multisensory decision-making.
  • Extending the model to quantify confidence in heading discrimination tasks.
  • Previewing research using closed-loop virtual reality and active self-motion.

Main Results:

  • Models can be extended to study confidence in multisensory heading discrimination.
  • Time and certainty are critical factors in multisensory decision-making for navigation.
  • Ethologically inspired tasks with large-scale neural recordings offer new insights.

Conclusions:

  • Confidence estimation is vital for timely action and sequential decision-making in navigation.
  • Advanced approaches like virtual reality and active self-motion enhance understanding of spatial perception.
  • Further research promises deeper insights into spatial perception and decision-making in behaving animals.