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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Visual motion perception as online hierarchical inference
Contributor:
Bill, Johannes;
Gershman, Samuel J.;
Drugowitsch, Jan
imprint:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022
Published in:Nature Communications
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1038/s41467-022-34805-5
ISSN:
2041-1723
Origination:
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Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Identifying the structure of motion relations in the environment is critical for navigation, tracking, prediction, and pursuit. Yet, little is known about the mental and neural computations that allow the visual system to infer this structure online from a volatile stream of visual information. We propose online hierarchical Bayesian inference as a principled solution for how the brain might solve this complex perceptual task. We derive an online Expectation-Maximization algorithm that explains human percepts qualitatively and quantitatively for a diverse set of stimuli, covering classical psychophysics experiments, ambiguous motion scenes, and illusory motion displays. We thereby identify normative explanations for the origin of human motion structure perception and make testable predictions for future psychophysics experiments. The proposed online hierarchical inference model furthermore affords a neural network implementation which shares properties with motion-sensitive cortical areas and motivates targeted experiments to reveal the neural representations of latent structure.</jats:p>