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Deep-learning models of the ascending proprioceptive pathway are subject to illusions

Perez Rotondo, Adriana  
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Simos, Merkourios  
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Pigeon, Sebastian
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June 4, 2025
Experimental Physiology

Proprioception is essential for perception and action. Like any other sense, proprioception is also subject to illusions. In this study, we model classic proprioceptive illusions in which tendon vibrations lead to biases in estimating the state of the body. We investigate these illusions with task-driven models that have been trained to infer the state of the body from distributed sensory muscle spindle inputs (primary and secondary afferents). Recent work has shown that such models exhibit representations similar to the neural code along the ascending proprioceptive pathway. Importantly, we did not train the models on illusion experiments and simulated muscle-tendon vibrations by considering their effect on primary afferents. Our results demonstrate that task-driven models are indeed susceptible to proprioceptive illusions, with the magnitude of the illusion depending on the vibration frequency. This work illustrates that primary afferents alone are sufficient to account for these classic illusions and provides a foundation for future theory-driven experiments.

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