Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

The precision of multisensory perception improves when cues arising from the same cause
are integrated, such as visual and vestibular heading cues for an observer moving through a …

To estimate an environmental property such as object location from multiple sensory signals,
the brain must infer their causal relationship. Only information originating from the same …

Observers in perceptual tasks are often reported to combine multiple sensory cues in a
weighted average that improves precision—in some studies, approaching statistically …

Human adults are adept at mitigating the influence of sensory uncertainty on task
performance by integrating sensory cues with learned prior information, in a Bayes‐optimal …

During sensorimotor tasks, subjects use sensory feedback but also prior information. It is
often assumed that the sensorimotor prior is just given by the experiment and that the details …

Resource rationality holds great promise as a unifying principle across theories in
neuroscience, cognitive science, and economics. The target article clearly lays out this …

Human perception is based on unconscious inference, where sensory input integrates with
prior information. This phenomenon, known as context dependency, helps in facing the …

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 …

Perceptual confidence typically corresponds to accuracy. However, observers can be
overconfident relative to accuracy, termed “subjective inflation.” Inflation is stronger in the …