Michael Pecka

This study investigates how agency and embodiment affect perception, metacognition, and neural processing during active sensing, finding that agency improves accuracy and neural responses while embodiment uniquely enhances confidence.

The paper investigates how brain state affects spatial tuning in auditory cortex neurons, finding distinct coding regimes under anesthesia, wakefulness, and task engagement.

The paper shows that sound-source identity alters spatial tuning in auditory cortex neurons during active navigation, revealing co-existent egocentric and allocentric information.

The paper demonstrates that dynamic range adaptation in auditory spatial processing enhances population coding efficiency and improves source separability and spatial resolution in both rodents and humans.