Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Interacting with volatile environments stabilizes hidden-state inference and its brain signatures

  • Aurélien Weiss,
  • Valérian Chambon,
  • Junseok K. Lee,
  • Jan Drugowitsch,
  • Valentin Wyart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22396-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Here, the authors show that humans perceive uncertain environments as more stable when actively interacting with them than when observing them. Magnetoencephalographic signals in the temporal lobe were associated with the increased stability of beliefs during active sampling.