To use sensory information efficiently to make judgments and guide action in the world, the
brain must represent and use information about uncertainty in its computations for …

Adaptive behavior in a complex, dynamic, and multisensory world poses some of the most
fundamental computational challenges for the brain, notably inference, decision-making …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Ventriloquism is the ancient art of making one's voice appear to come from elsewhere, an art
exploited by the Greek and Roman oracles, and possibly earlier [1]. We regularly experience …

Uncertainty in various forms plagues our interactions with the environment. In a Bayesian
statistical framework, optimal inference and prediction, based on unreliable observations in …

Integration of multiple sensory cues is essential for precise and accurate perception and
behavioral performance, yet the reliability of sensory signals can vary across modalities and …

Decision making is a core competence for animals and humans acting and surviving in
environments they only partially comprehend, gaining rewards and punishments for their …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

How we estimate uncertainty is important in decision neuroscience and has wide-ranging
implications in basic and clinical neuroscience, from computational models of optimality to …