Drosophila detects negative visual evidence against self-motion
Ryosuke Tanaka, Baohua Zhou, Margarida Agrochao, Bara Badwan, Braedyn Au, Natalia Castelo Branco Matos, Damon Clark · COSYNE 2023
Sensory inputs available to animals are often open to multiple interpretations. When evaluating the likelihood of a certain interpretation, it is important that they consider not only evidence confirming that interpretation, but also evidence against it. Human reasoning often fails to appropriately weigh negative evidence, a phenomenon termed confirmation bias. However, since behaving based on false beliefs is costly, animals may detect negative evidence better in the context of innate, naturalistic behaviors. An example of such behaviors is visual course stabilization. Existing models assume
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