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SUMMARY:Is the Brain Bayesian?
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LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Silver Center (Saturday)\, New York\, United States\, 10003
DESCRIPTION:<p>On December 4-5\, the NYU Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness<br> will host a conference on &ldquo\;Is the Brain Bayesian?&rdquo\;.</p>\n<p>Bayesian theories have attracted enormous attention in the cognitive<br> sciences in recent years. According to these theories\, the mind<br> assigns probabilities to hypotheses and updates them according to<br> standard probabilistic rules of inference. Bayesian theories have<br> been applied to the study of perception\, learning\, memory\, reasoning\,<br> language\, decision making\, and many other domains. Bayesian<br> approaches have also become increasingly popular in neuroscience\, and<br> a number of potential neurobiological mechanisms have been proposed.</p>\n<p>At the same time\, Bayesian theories have been controversial\, and they<br> raise many foundational questions. Does the brain actually use<br> Bayesian rules? Or are they merely approximate descriptions of<br> behavior? How well can Bayesian theories accommodate apparent<br> irrationality in cognition? Do they require an implausibly uniform<br> view of the mind? Are Bayesian theories near-trivial due to their<br> many degrees of freedom? What are their implications for the<br> relationship between perception\, cognition\, rationality\, and<br> consciousness?</p>\n<p>All of these questions and more will be discussed at the conference. The conference will bring together both scientists and philosophers\, and<br> both proponents and opponents of Bayesian approaches\, to discuss and debate a number of central issues.</p>\n<p>Speakers and panelists will include:</p>\n<p>Jeffrey Bowers(Bristol)\, David Danks(Carnegie Mellon)\, Ernest Davis(NYU)\, Karl Friston(University College London)\, Weiji Ma(NYU)\, Larry Maloney(NYU)\, Eric Mandelbaum(CUNY)\, Gary Marcus(NYU)\, John Morrison(Barnard/Columbia)\, Nicoletta Orlandi(UC Santa Cruz)\, Michael Rescorla(UC Santa Barbara)\, Laura Schulz(MIT)\, Susanna Siegel(Harvard)\, <a href="http://www.cns.nyu.edu/%7Eeero/">Eero Simoncelli </a>(NYU)\,Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT) and others</p>\n<p>The conference sessions will run from 9:30am to 6pm on Friday and Saturday December 4-5. Friday sessions will be in Kimmel Center 914<br> (60 Washington Square South) and Saturday sessions will be in Jurow Hall in the Silver Center (100 Washington Square East). Conference<br> registration and coffee will begin at 9am both days. A full schedule will be circulated closer to the conference date.</p>\n<p>Registration is free but required.To register please visit http://wp.nyu.edu/consciousness/bayesian/</p>\n<p>For questions please contact:&nbsp\; consciousness@nyu.edu</p>
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