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17 November 2006
Bayesian brains?
Amy Perfors
Andrew Gelman has link to a study that just came out in Nature Neuroscience whose author, Alex Pouget at the University of Rochester, suggests that "the cortex appears wired at its foundation to run Bayesian computations as efficiently as can be possible." I haven't read the paper yet, so I don't have much in the way of intelligent commentary, but I'll try to take a look at it soon. In the meantime, here is a link to the press release so you can read something about it even if you don't have access to Nature Neuroscience. From the blurb, it sounds pretty neat, especially if you (like me) are at all interested in the psychological plausibility of Bayesian models as applied to human cognition.
Posted by Amy Perfors at November 17, 2006 11:40 AM
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You might enjoy this, too, if you haven't seen it already:
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/class/Psy341K/Geisler/Geisler_Diehl_CogSci03.pdf
Posted by: Chris at November 26, 2006 9:46 AM
The article is available on the author's website: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/alex/
Posted by: Brendan O'Connor at November 26, 2006 4:21 PM