Chaotic dynamics in the brain may enable probabilistic thinking

(A) Schematics of the cue-integration task. (B) The Bayes optimal posteriors in the cue-integration task. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312992121 Chaos may be behind the brain’s ability to compute probabilities, according to a new analysis by two neuroscientists at RIKEN. The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our perception is shaped by multisensory inputs. For instance, the brain processes sights and sounds to generate a range of possible locations for an object and estimates the uncertainty associated with each option. But how exactly the brain assesses these possibilities Read More