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Selective encoding of priors for flexible categorization but not Bayesian inference in the frontal eye field.
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Expectations or prior beliefs about the world have been shown to modulate sensory processing both at the behavioral and neural levels. Bayesian models predict that such priors compensate for input uncertainty to optimize sensory judgments. Although Bayesian behavior is prevalent across sensorimotor systems, the relationship between priors and Bayesian inference is not obligatory. Priors may simply shift one's internal decision boundaries without interacting with sensory uncertainty at all. We recently showed that humans and monkeys use both Bayesian and non-Bayesian strategies when reporting judgments of visual stability across saccades, despite using priors in both cases. While they increased prior use to compensate for internal, movement-driven sensory uncertainty in a Bayesian manner, they
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