10.7554/eLife.32055.001 Behavior relies on the ability of sensory systems to infer properties
of the environment from incoming stimuli. The accuracy of inference depends on the fidelity …

Interaction with the world requires an organism to transform sensory signals into representations
in which behaviorally meaningful properties of the environment are made explicit. …

The ability to adapt to changes in stimulus statistics is a hallmark of sensory systems. Here,
we developed a theoretical framework that can account for the dynamics of adaptation from …

Normative theories and statistical inference provide complementary approaches for the
study of biological systems. A normative theory postulates that organisms have adapted to …

Statistics of natural scenes are not uniform—their structure varies dramatically from ground
to sky. It remains unknown whether these nonuniformities are reflected in the large-scale …

Events and objects in the world must be inferred from sensory signals to support behavior.
Because sensory measurements are temporally and spatially local, the estimation of an object …

To interpret the sensory environment, the brain combines ambiguous sensory measurements
with knowledge that reflects context-specific prior experience. But environmental contexts …

Binaural sound localization is usually considered a discrimination task, where interaural
phase (IPD) and level (ILD) disparities at narrowly tuned frequency channels are utilized to …

Background Despite their widespread use, the biological mechanisms underlying the efficacy
of psychotropic drugs are still incompletely known; improved understanding of these is …

In mammalian auditory cortex, sound source position is represented by a population of broadly
tuned neurons whose firing is modulated by sounds located at all positions surrounding …