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Lucas Benjamin^1,2,3, Benjamin Morillon¹, Valentin Wyart^2,3

¹Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille 13010, France.

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Human sensory processing involves integrating information, predicting timing, and discovering rules. This study reveals these cognitive functions interact dynamically, influencing each other during environmental modeling.

Keywords:

artificial neural networks cognitive modeling human learning inference rule learning

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Area of Science:

Cognitive neuroscience
Human perception and inference

Background:

Accurate environmental modeling relies on processing variable sensory input.
Humans infer sensory statistics, predict stimulus timing, and discover sequence rules.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the synergistic or independent operation of sensory integration, temporal prediction, and rule discovery.
To explore interactions between these inference forms in humans.

Main Methods:

Participants processed rhythmic stimulus sequences with or without a latent rule.
Behavioral tasks assessed sensory integration, temporal prediction, and rule discovery.
Recurrent neural networks were used to validate findings.

Main Results:

Individual differences in sensory integration predicted rule discovery efficiency.
Rule discovery modulated sensory integration timescale and format.
Rhythmicity disruption impaired rule discovery but not sensory integration.

Conclusions:

Sensory integration, temporal prediction, and rule discovery exhibit selective interactions.
These findings highlight the flexibility of human inference under variable sensory conditions.