Received: AugAccepted: NovemPublished: December 28, 2016Ĭopyright: © 2016 Meyniel et al. Gershman, Harvard University, UNITED STATES PLoS Comput Biol 12(12):Įditor: Samuel J. Our model therefore unifies many previous findings and suggests that a neural machinery for inferring transition probabilities must lie at the core of human sequence knowledge.Ĭitation: Meyniel F, Maheu M, Dehaene S (2016) Human Inferences about Sequences: A Minimal Transition Probability Model. whether humans think that a given sequence of observations has been generated randomly or not. Last, we consider the notoriously biased subjective perception of randomness, i.e. These signals are reportedly modulated in a quantitative manner by both the local and global statistics of observations. We also consider the “surprise-like” signals recorded in electrophysiology and even functional MRI, that are elicited by a random stream of observations. the pervasive fluctuations in performance induced by the recent history of observations. Such findings include the “sequential effects” evidenced in many behavioral tasks, i.e. We focus on five representative studies by other groups. We list six such properties and we test them successfully against various experimental findings reported in distinct fields of the literature over the past century. Expectations derived from such a model should conform to several properties. Humans may then use these estimates to predict future observations. We explore the possibility that the computation of time-varying transition probabilities may be a core building block of sequence knowledge in humans. Our analysis suggests that a neural machinery for inferring transition probabilities lies at the core of human sequence knowledge. Notably, it explains the pervasive asymmetry between repetitions and alternations encountered in those studies.
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This parsimonious Bayesian model, with a single free parameter, accounts for a broad range of findings on surprise signals, sequential effects and the perception of randomness. Here, we explore the hypothesis that the brain acts as a near-optimal inference device that constantly attempts to infer the time-varying matrix of transition probabilities between the stimuli it receives, even when those stimuli are in fact fully unpredictable. Experimental evidence for these expectations and their violations include explicit reports, sequential effects on reaction times, and mismatch or surprise signals recorded in electrophysiology and functional MRI. Homologs for the two other ORFs could not be identified.The brain constantly infers the causes of the inputs it receives and uses these inferences to generate statistical expectations about future observations. Two ORFs were homologous to the phosphofructokinase A (pfkA) and alpha-isopropyl malate synthase (leuA) genes of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium, respectively. Four other open reading frames (ORFs) on the cloned DNA segment were identified. Analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence of DprA suggested that it may be an inner membrane protein, which is consistent with its apparent role in DNA processing during transformation. A novel gene, which we called dprA+, was shown to encode a 41.6-kDa polypeptide that was required for efficient chromosomal but not plasmid DNA transformation. We used subcloning, deletion analysis, and in vivo protein labeling experiments to more precisely define the gene required for efficient DNA transformation on the cloned DNA. influenzae strain carrying the tfo-37 mutation. influenzae DNA segment capable of complementing in trans the transformation defect of an H. In this study, we cloned and sequenced a 3.8-kbp H. Natural genetic transformation in Haemophilus influenzae involves DNA binding, uptake, translocation, and recombination.
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