Owl’s behavior and neural representation predicted by Bayesian inference
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The owl captures prey using sound localization. In the classical model, the owl infers sound direction from the position of greatest activity in a brain map of auditory space. However, this model fails to describe the actual behavior. Although owls accurately localize sources near the center of gaze, they systematically underestimate peripheral source directions. We found that this behavior is predicted by statistical inference, formulated as a Bayesian model that emphasizes central directions. We propose that there is a bias in the neural coding of auditory space, which, at the expense of inducing errors in the periphery, achieves high behavioral accuracy at the ethologically relevant range. We found that the owl's map of auditory space decoded by a population vector is consistent with the behavioral model. Thus, a probabilistic model describes both how the map of auditory space supports behavior and why this representation is optimal.
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- Authors
- Fischer, B. J., & Peña, J. L.
- Affiliations
- École Normale Supérieure - PSL (FR)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fischer, Brian J
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2011-07-03
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1061-1066
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- PMC
- PMC3145020
- OpenAlex
- W1981706467
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC007690, R01DC007690)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Keywords
- Bayesian inference, auditory cortex, sound source direction estimation, prey capture
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Animals, Bayes Theorem, Behavior, Animal, Brain, Brain Mapping, Models, Biological, Neurons, Sound Localization, Likelihood Functions, Strigiformes
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