Topic: animal cognition

The ability to detect, represent and exploit statistical regularities in the environment is a key feature of animal cognition. The brain holds internal models of the world to optimally interpret incoming sensory inputs and guide the appropriate responses. Previously, we have shown that humans and rodents are sensitive to the underlying sensory statistics in a 2-alternative-forced-choice auditory categorisation task. In this work, we investigate the neural signatures of behavioural adaptation to changes in sensory statistics, where the sampling distribution of sounds within each category is mod