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Insect-Inspired Model Computes Human-Like Audiovisual Perception From Raw Signals

Published in eLife, the stimulus-computable lattice judges audio–video synchrony without training.

Overview

  • The simulation reproduced results from 69 classic experiments spanning humans, monkeys, and rats.
  • Across datasets, it matched behavior and outperformed the Bayesian Causal Inference model using the same number of adjustable parameters.
  • The lattice predicted where viewers looked in audiovisual scenes, functioning as a lightweight saliency map.
  • The approach extends the Multisensory Correlation Detector derived from insect motion circuitry and targets transient cross‑modal correlations.
  • The authors present it as an efficient, training‑free candidate for multimodal AI and real‑world audiovisual processing, with broader deployment proposed as a next step.