Highlights•The brain can optimally integrate information across sensory
systems.•Probabilistic population codes solve many problems in multisensory cue …

Many sensory inputs contain multiple sources of information ('cues'), such as two sounds of
different frequencies, or a voice heard in unison with moving lips. Often, each cue provides a …

Scientists examining how people understand other minds have long thought that this task
must be something like how people perceive the physical world. This comparison has …

Examining development is important in addressing questions about whether Bayesian
principles are hard coded in the brain. If the brain is inherently Bayesian, then behavior …

Adults can integrate multiple sensory estimates to reduce their uncertainty in perceptual and
motor tasks. In recent studies, children did not show this ability until after 8 years. Here we …

Cue combination occurs when two independent noisy perceptual estimates are merged
together as a weighted average, creating a unified estimate that is more precise than either …

Humans and other animals have been shown to perform near-optimally in multi-sensory
integration tasks. Probabilistic population codes (PPCs) have been proposed as a …

Humans are effective at dealing with noisy, probabilistic information in familiar settings. One
hallmark of this is Bayesian Cue Combination: combining multiple noisy estimates to …

Presenting simultaneous but spatially discrepant visual and auditory stimuli induces a
perceptual translocation of the sound towards the visual input, the ventriloquism effect …

The breakout success of deep neural networks (NNs) in the 2010's marked a new era in the
quest to build artificial intelligence (AI). With NNs as the building block of these systems …