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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Thursday, April 5, 2012
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Learning, Representation and Generalization of Uncertainty
Konrad Kording, Associate Professor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Physiology, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University,
At any point of time, we have sensory information. But we also have information that we have acquired in the past, we have beliefs. Within Bayesian statistics, sensory information can be formalized as likelihoods and acquired information from the past can be formalized as priors. Here I ask how such priors are acquired, how the nervous system represents them and how the nervous system estimates priors in new situations; how priors generalize.
For more information, please contact Barbara Estrada by phone at Ext. 4083 or by email at [email protected].