Sensory cue-combination in the context of newly learned categories.

ABSTRACT: A large body of prior research has evaluated how humans combine multiple sources of information pertaining to stimuli drawn from continuous dimensions, such as distance or size. These prior studies have repeatedly demonstrated that in these circumstances humans integrate cues in a near-optimal fashion, weighting cues according to their reliability. However, most of our interactions with sensory information are in the context of categories such as objects and phonemes, thereby requiring a solution to the cue combination problem by mapping sensory estimates from continuous dimensions onto task-relevant categories. Previous studies have examined cue combination with natural categories (e.g., phonemes), providing qualitative evidence that human observers utilize information about the distribut

SUBMITTER: Bankieris KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5589839 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature