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A Bayesian Account of Visual-Vestibular Interactions in the Rod-and-Frame Task.
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- Influence of scene aspect ratio and depth cues on verticality perception bias.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Nonhuman primates exploit the prior assumption that the visual world is vertical.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Altered visual conscious awareness in patients with vestibular dysfunctions; a cross-sectional observation study.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2023Article
- Visuospatial orientation: Differential effects of head and body positions.Neuroscience letters · 2022Article
- Postural adjustment as a function of scene orientation.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Influence of panoramic cues during prolonged roll-tilt adaptation on the percept of vertical.Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation · 2022Article
- Panoramic Uncertainty in Vertical Perception.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2021Article
- Multisensory Interactions in Head and Body Centered Perception of Verticality.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Young and Older Adults Differ in Integration of Sensory Cues for Vertical Perception.Journal of aging research · 2020Article
- Age-related reweighting of visual and vestibular cues for vertical perception.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
- Human manual control precision depends on vestibular sensory precision and gravitational magnitude.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Neuronal network-based mathematical modeling of perceived verticality in acute unilateral vestibular lesions: from nerve to thalamus and cortex.Journal of neurology · 2018Article
- Bayesian quantification of sensory reweighting in a familial bilateral vestibular disorder (DFNA9).Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Bayesian optimal adaptation explains age-related human sensorimotor changes.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Gravity estimation and verticality perception.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2018Review
- Psychophysical Evaluation of Sensory Reweighting in Bilateral Vestibulopathy.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Panoramic visual cues, as generated by the objects in the environment, provide the brain with important information about gravity direction. To derive an optimal, i.e., Bayesian, estimate of gravity direction, the brain must combine panoramic information with gravity information detected by the vestibular system. Here, we examined the individual sensory contributions to this estimate psychometrically. We asked human subjects to judge the orientation (clockwise or counterclockwise relative to gravity) of a briefly flashed luminous rod, presented within an oriented square frame (rod-in-frame). Vestibular contributions were manipulated by tilting the subject's head, whereas visual contributions were manipulated by changing the viewing distance of the rod and frame. Results show a cyclical modulation of the frame-induced bias in perceived verticality across a 90° range of frame orientations. The magnitude of this bias decreased significantly with larger viewing distance, as if visual reliability was reduced. Biases increased significantly when the head was tilted, as if vestibular reliability was reduced. A Bayesian optimal integration model, with distinct vertical and horizontal panoramic weights, a gain factor to allow for visual reliability changes, and ocular counterroll in response to head tilt, provided a good fit to the data. We conclude that subjects flexibly weigh visual panoramic and vestibular information based on their orientation-dependent reliability, resulting in the observed verticality biases and the associated response variabilities.
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