ArticleCommunications psychology2024
A dissociation between the use of implicit and explicit priors in perceptual inference.
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- Structuring the World: Statistical Learning From the Top and From the Bottom.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Review
- Auditory perceptual maps in humans and mice share common structures and predict perceptual decisions in discrimination learning.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Cognitive biases as Bayesian probability weighting in context.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The brain constantly uses prior knowledge of the statistics of its environment to shape perception. These statistics are often implicit (not directly observable) and learned incrementally from observation, but they can also be explicitly communicated to the observer, especially in humans. Here, we show that priors are used differently in human perceptual inference depending on whether they are explicit or implicit in the environment. Bayesian modeling of learning and perception revealed that the weight of the sensory likelihood in perceptual decisions was highly correlated across participants between tasks with implicit and explicit priors, and slightly stronger in the implicit task. By contrast, the weight of priors was much less correlated across tasks, and it was markedly smaller for explicit priors. The model comparison also showed that different computations underpinned perceptual decisions depending on the origin of the priors. This dissociation may resolve previously conflicting results about the appropriate use of priors in human perception.
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