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Multisensory integration - cue combination Flashcards

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tactile info when engaging/touching/manipulating an object =

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haptic feedback

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different senses might provide conflicting information about a sensory stimulus =

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sensory conflicts

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sensory conflicts need to be resolved. How?

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we need to make a choice to resolve the conflict

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does vision or touch dominate judgement of object size?

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vision dominates perceived object size

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what is it called when visual input dominates to provide a more accurate judgement of object size?

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visual capture > this is the VISUAL CAPTURE EFFECT

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does touch have any influence on the visual capture effect?

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yes but only small but consistent influence

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what were the 3 ways Rock and victor assessed visual capture?

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pointing, feeling, drawing

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is there a strict sensory hierarchy?

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no, audition can dominate vision

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who conducted a study to show that audition can dominate vision by testing for sensory conflict?

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Shams et al, 2000

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what were the results from Shams et al, 2000 study?

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number of auditory beeps determined the number of reported visual flashes, sound was followed more closely than sight e.g. 1 flash + 2 beeps = 2 beeps reported. SHOWS WE TRUST AUDITION MORE THAN VISUAL SENSE

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what is the modality precision hypothesis?

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modality with highest precision and lowest uncertainty is chosen depending on the task type

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following the modality precision hypothesis > spatial task uses _____, temporal task uses ______

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vision, audition

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what 3 things is sensory uncertainty due to?

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perceptual limits, neural noise, cognitive resource limits

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communication between neurons at the synapse doesn’t work > leads to uncertainty. this is due to?

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neural noise

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different senses have different levels of ______ uncertainty

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noise

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how did Ernst and Banks (2002) shift ppts attention to different senses?

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by manipulating the level of sensory uncertainty

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what does MLE stand for?

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation

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what is a normative model?

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optimal solution to how a problem should be solved

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what is a normative model based on?

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theory

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what is a process model?

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how a problem is actually solved

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what is a process model based on?

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data

22
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how should we solve problem of sensory integration?

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pick integration method that minimises sensory uncertainty > maximum likelihood estimator

23
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when making an estimate based on haptic and visual inputs what is the best way to get a maximum likelihood estimation?

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combine senses and their uncertainty to get an INTEGRATED SIGNAL with the smallest possible combined uncertainty

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a large distribution means high ______ which means high sensory _______ and a lower _______

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variance, uncertainty, probability

25
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a ______ distribution means low variance which means ___ sensory uncertainty and a _____ probability

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small, low, higher

26
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different senses have different amounts of what?

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sensory noise

27
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when there are 2 different sense inputs (visual and haptic) there are 2 distributions produced because of 2 different estimates. why are 2 estimates produced?

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because sensory conflict is created

28
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how are 2 probabilities integrated if both estimates have the same amount of variance and uncertainty level?

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place the integrated estimate exactly in the middle

29
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does a combined estimate of 2 sense inputs have lower or higher uncertainty?

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lower! smaller variance = lower uncertainty > higher probability

30
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when integrating probabilities, if visual uncertainty is lower than haptic uncertainty what does theory suggest we should trust?

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vision

31
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if visual uncertainty is smaller than haptic how are the estimates combined?

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biased towards the visual estimate

32
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visual weight of 1 and haptic weight of 0 = only trust ____ input

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visual

33
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visual weight of 0 and haptic weight of 1 = only trust _____ input

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haptic

34
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according to MLE what can be calculated from the variance (sensory uncertainty) of the visual and haptic distribution?

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optimal weights

35
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integrating info from multiple sources always causes uncertainty to _______

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decrease (as variance is decreased when combining)

36
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combining variance leads to a ______ in variance (minimal variance)

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decrease

37
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after converting sensory inputs from different senses into a coherent reference frame, info needs to be _______ and sensory conflicts need to be _______

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integrated, resolved

38
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MLE is a ________ model that allows us to calculate the _______ way to integrate info

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normative, optimal

39
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what is shown with perceived bar length when no visual noise is added? (Ernst & Banks, 2002)

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biased towards visual input. shows visual dominance > visual capture (we trust visual over haptic input)

40
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what happens when we add visual noise? (Ernst & Banks, 2002)

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perception of bar length moves more towards haptic estimate and becomes determined by both visual and haptic inputs

41
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explain why adding visual noise means theres a shift in our estimate towards haptic estimate

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visual input is more noisy > we have more uncertainty and can’t trust it > shift estimate towards haptic feedback as can’t fully rely on visual

42
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what happens when even more (high) visual noise is added?

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perception of bar length is determined by haptic inputs and we rely on haptic over visual

43
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as visual noise increases we move toward haptic capture as visual weight _______ and haptic weight ________

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decreases, increases

44
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more visual noise = more ________ which means we can’t trust its estimate

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uncertainty

45
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do we always integrate info optimally?

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idea that we don’t integrate it optimally as heuristics aren’t optimal (but still work well enough)

46
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is it easier to know the uncertainty for optimal integration in sensory perception or cognitive reasoning?

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sensory perception! can generally estimate noise and uncertainty levels

47
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why is it hard we always calculate uncertainty levels in our brains?

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calculations are intractable and take a long time

48
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what do we use instead of integrating info optimally and why?

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use HEURISTICS! suboptimal but fast and provide good enough solutions

49
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we are good at estimating ______ noise but bad at estimating _______ noise

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sensory, cognitive

50
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are probabilities encoded in the brain? discuss.

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little direct electrophysiological evidence but several plausible theories > may be down to neurons to tell us the variance? different neurons may encode different probability values? different neurons may have different estimates? (active research area with lots of debate)

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