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  • Neuroscience
  • Perception
  • Primate behavior

Background:

  • Vestibular information is crucial for perceiving orientation but can be noisy.
  • Visual backgrounds can aid in determining verticality, while tilted backgrounds can create illusions of head tilt in humans.
  • The brain's prior assumption of a vertical visual world is a proposed explanation for these human perceptual phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether non-human primates (rhesus monkeys) share the human perceptual mechanism of relying on a prior assumption of a vertical visual world.
  • To compare primate and human responses to tilted visual backgrounds in determining subjective visual vertical (SVV).

Main Methods:

  • Two rhesus monkeys were trained to align a visual arrow to a vertical reference line.
  • A large, tilted background square was introduced to manipulate visual cues.
  • Subjective visual vertical (SVV) was measured by omitting the reference line on a subset of trials.

Main Results:

  • Monkeys' SVV aligned with gravitational vertical when the background frame was upright.
  • When the background frame was tilted, monkeys exhibited a bias in SVV towards the frame's orientation, similar to human perceptual illusions.
  • This indicates that monkeys, like humans, are influenced by the orientation of the visual background.

Conclusions:

  • Rhesus monkeys share the human reliance on the prior assumption that the visual world is vertical.
  • This finding suggests phylogenetic continuity in the principles governing visual-vestibular integration for verticality perception across primates.
  • The integration of sensory information for orientation is constrained by a shared evolutionary bias towards a vertically oriented visual environment.