Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Rats adopt the optimal timescale for evidence integration in a dynamic environment

  • Alex T. Piet,
  • Ahmed El Hady,
  • Carlos D. Brody

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06561-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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In a dynamic environment old evidence could be outdated. Here, the authors investigate the ability of rats to integrate and discount evidence provided by auditory clicks to infer a hidden, dynamic, state of the world and model the consequence of sensory noise to explain the source of errors.