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Causal inference accounts for heading perception in the presence of object motion

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Dokka, Kalpana, Park, Hyeshin, Jansen, Michael, DeAngelis, Gregory C., Angelaki, Dora E.·2019·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1820373116PMC PMC6500172
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Significance: A moving observer faces an interpretational challenge when the visual scene contains independently moving objects. To correctly judge their direction of self-motion (heading), an observer must appropriately infer the causes of retinal image motion. We demonstrate that perception of object motion systematically influences heading judgments. When a moving object was erroneously perceived to be stationary in the world, heading judgments were significantly biased. On the contrary, when the object was correctly perceived to be moving, biases in heading estimates declined dramatically. Our results thus suggest that the brain makes inferences about sources of image motion using causal inference computations.

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  • The network exhibits self-motion estimation biased by causal inference.

    “Further, the network exhibits key “behavioural” characteristics observed in human and primate studies, such as reliability-based cue weighting (9, 17) and self-motion estimation biased by causal inference (18).”

    From How multisensory neurons solve causal inference. (2021) · cites this paper as [18]

  • Observers' judgements were more biased in the direction of the local motion on trials in which they reported only one event.

    “Observers’ judgements were more biased in the direction of the local motion on trials in which they reported only one event (Fig. 2D), suggesting that when both cues were attributed to the same cause they were integrated, but they were separated when two causes were detected by the observers.”

    From How multisensory neurons solve causal inference. (2021) · cites this paper as [18]

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    Rideaux, R., Storrs, K. R., Maiello, G., & Welchman, A. E. (2021) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2106235118 · Cited by 65 · see citing works

    “When the (local) motion of an independently moving object is sufficiently similar to this pattern of global motion, human estimates of self-motion are more biased toward the local motion cue when they are both attributed to the same event (18).”
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Authors
Dokka, K., Park, H., Jansen, M., DeAngelis, G. C., & Angelaki, D. E.
Affiliations
  • Baylor College of Medicine (US)
  • University of Rochester (US)
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Published
2019-04-17
Volume
116
Issue
18
Pages
9060-9065
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1820373116
PMC
PMC6500172
OpenAlex
W2937822917
Cited by
80
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4
FWCI
5.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.pnas.org/site/aboutpnas/licenses.xhtml (vor, 183 d)
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R03 DC013987)
  • HHS | NIH | National Eye Institute (EY016178, R01 EY022538)
  • Simons Foundation for Autism Research (396921)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
Keywords
heading perception, self-motion perception, causal inference, object motion, image motion, perceptual bias, virtual reality, motion perception
MeSH terms
Adult, Animals, Cues, Female, Humans, Judgment, Macaca mulatta, Male, Motion, Motion Perception, Movement, Orientation, Photic Stimulation, Space Perception, Visual Perception, Healthy Volunteers

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