ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023
Multisensory decisions from self to world.
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- Two separate neural pathways, lateral and medial, for sensory decisions in mammals: switching of attention between the outer and inner cognitive worlds.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Individual Differences in Bodily Self-Consciousness and Its Neural Basis.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Meeting the multidimensional self: fostering selfhood at the interface of Creative Arts Therapies and neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- The bodily self from psychosis to psychedelics.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cross-Modal Plasticity during Self-Motion Perception.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Self-motion perception and sequential decision-making: where are we heading?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- How the brain controls decision making in a multisensory world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Classic Bayesian models of perceptual inference describe how an ideal observer would integrate 'unisensory' measurements (multisensory integration) and attribute sensory signals to their origin(s) (causal inference). However, in the brain, sensory signals are always received in the context of a multisensory bodily state-namely, in combination with other senses. Moreover, sensory signals from both interoceptive sensing of one's own body and exteroceptive sensing of the world are highly interdependent and never occur in isolation. Thus, the observer must fundamentally determine whether each sensory observation is from an external (versus internal, self-generated) source to even be considered for integration. Critically, solving this primary causal inference problem requires knowledge of multisensory and sensorimotor dependencies. Thus, multisensory processing is needed to separate sensory signals. These multisensory processes enable us to simultaneously form a sense of self and form distinct perceptual decisions about the external world. In this opinion paper, we review and discuss the similarities and distinctions between multisensory decisions underlying the sense of self and those directed at acquiring information about the world. We call attention to the fact that heterogeneous multisensory processes take place all along the neural hierarchy (even in forming 'unisensory' observations) and argue that more integration of these aspects, in theory and experiment, is required to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of multisensory brain function. This article is part of the theme issue 'Decision and control processes in multisensory perception'.
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