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NEURON
Volume 104, Issue 5, Pages 1010-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.038
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31761133014]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS [XDB32070000]
- Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project [2018SHZDZX05]
- Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain
- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A_165831]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_165831] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Perceptual decisions are often based on multiple sensory inputs whose reliabilities rapidly vary over time, yet little is known about how the brain integrates these inputs to optimize behavior. The optimal solution requires that neurons simply add their sensory inputs across time and modalities, as long as these inputs are encoded with an invariant linear probabilistic population code (iIPPC). While this theoretical possibility has been raised before, it has never been tested experimentally. Here, we report that neural activities in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of macaques performing a vestibular-visual multisensory decision-making task are indeed consistent with the iIPPC theory. More specifically, we found that LIP accumulates momentary evidence proportional to the visual speed and the absolute value of vestibular acceleration, two variables that are encoded with close approximations to iIPPCs in sensory areas. Together, these results provide a remarkably simple and biologically plausible solution to near-optimal multisensory decision making.
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