Towards a neural implementation of causal inference in cue combination

Multisensory Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 159-176

  Ma, Wei Ji ^a   Rahmati, Masih ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; causal inference; cue combination; modeling; Multisensory perception; neural networks; population coding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEARING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879133500     PISSN: 22134794     EISSN: 22134808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134808-00002407     Document Type: Article

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