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Preparing to act follows Bayesian inference rules.
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- Disentangling the Functional Roles of Premotor-Motor Pathways in Automatic Imitation: A Combined Network-Based Transcranial Stimulation and Drift Diffusion Modeling Approach.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Perceptual Bias in Motion Discrimination is Related to Asymmetric Interhemispheric Alpha Traveling Waves.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Prior Information Shapes Perceptual Confidence.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Oscillatory signatures of monitoring and anticipatory strategies for probabilistic vs deterministic cues.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Bayesian brain theories suggest that the human brain sets up predictive models to anticipate sensory evidence. Here, we propose that these models inform the entire functional hierarchy, scaling all the way down to the motor system. To test this hypothesis, 62 participants completed a probabilistic discrimination task while receiving bilateral single-pulse transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS) over the two M1s. Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) were recorded to assess motor excitability for prior-congruent vs. incongruent actions. Results demonstrated that prior expectations shaped cortico-spinal excitability (CSE) prior to action execution, inhibiting prior-incongruent response preparation. Notably, drift-diffusion modeling revealed that trial-by-trial MEPs variations significantly influenced decision-making bias. Finally, interindividual differences in CSE modulations uncovered two distinct predictive strategies - the
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