Tangible rewards are known to sharpen visual processing of associated objects. Tomić et al. show that an internal sense of confidence—acting as an intrinsic reward—similarly biases attention,…

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 01 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02573-7Tangible rewards are known to sharpen visual processing of associated objects. Tomić et al. show that an internal sense of confidence—acting as an intrinsic reward—similarly biases attention, revealing how the brain prioritizes limited resources.

Stimuli that reliably predict reward can increase their capacity to capture attention. This Value-Modulated Attentional Capture (VMAC) is typically viewed…

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To devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco...

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How sensory systems rapidly adapt to changing stimulus statistics remains unclear. Here the authors show that gain adaptation in recurrent networks can implement fast efficient coding, unifying prior ...

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The brain’s remarkable ability to process continuous sensory inputs with adaptive efficiency – balancing flexibility while minimizing metabolic cost – is thought to rely on predictive mechanisms that ...

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Bayesian efficient coding unifies two foundational theories of sensory processing: efficient coding and Bayesian inference. Central to this account is the idea that natural environmental statistics shape both how sensory information is encoded and how it is perceptually interpreted. By unifying these principles, the framework accounts for counterintuitive perceptual biases and establishes lawful relationships between environmental statistics, bias, and discrimination thresholds. In this article, we review behavioural and neural evidence for this theory in perception and cognition, as well as how short- and long-term adaptation to the environment may be expressed within the framework. We further review theoretical developments that extend the original framework, focusing on how response biases can be decomposed into encoding- and decoding-related components. A decade after its introduction, Bayesian efficient coding continues to evolve as a powerful theory, with recent extensions addressing early limitations and opening new directions for investigating perception and cognition.

Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...

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