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Perceptual decisions result from the continuous accumulation of memory and sensory evidence
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2017
bioRxiv
pre-print
Expectations can inform fast, accurate decisions. But what informs expectations? Here we test the hypothesis that expectations are set by dynamic inference from memory. Participants performed a cue-guided perceptual decision task with independently-varying memory and sensory evidence. Cues established expectations by reminding participants of past stimulus-stimulus pairings, which predicted the likely target in a subsequent noisy image stream. Participant's responses used both memory and
doi:10.1101/186817
fatcat:tgpvglnqnbhxtaw6olk2btqota