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Not Noisy, Just Wrong: The Role of Suboptimal Inference in Behavioral Variability
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Behavior varies from trial to trial even when the stimulus is maintained as constant as possible. In many models, this variability is attributed to noise in the brain. Here, we propose that there is another major source of variability: suboptimal inference. Importantly, we argue that in most tasks of interest, and particularly complex ones, suboptimal inference is likely to be the dominant component of behavioral variability. This perspective explains a variety of intriguing observations, including why variability appears to be larger on the sensory than on the motor side, and why our sensors are sometimes surprisingly unreliable.
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- Beck, J. M., Ma, W. J., Pitkow, X., Latham, P. E., & Pouget, A.
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- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0446730, 1132009)
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (N00014-07-1-0937)
- National Eye Institute (R01EY020958)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Keywords
- behavioral variability, trial-to-trial variability, neural noise, sensory uncertainty, sensor reliability, Bayesian inference, perceptual decision making
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Brain, Field Dependence-Independence, Humans, Models, Neurological, Models, Psychological, Neurons, Perceptual Masking, Sensation, Reproducibility of Results, Uncertainty, Behavioral Research
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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