Belief embodiment through eye movements facilitates memory-guided navigation.

ABSTRACT: Neural network models optimized for task performance often excel at predicting neural activity but do not explain other properties such as the distributed representation across functionally distinct areas. Distributed representations may arise from animals' strategies for resource utilization, however, fixation-based paradigms deprive animals of a vital resource: eye movements. During a naturalistic task in which humans use a joystick to steer and catch flashing fireflies in a virtual environment lacking position cues, subjects physically track the latent task variable with their gaze. We show this strategy to be true also during an inertial version of the task in the absence of optic flow and demonstrate that these task-relevant eye movements reflect an embodiment of the subjects' dynamic

SUBMITTER: Stavropoulos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473632 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature