no code implementations • 7 Jul 2021 • Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Florent Meyniel, Misha Tsodyks, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
An unpredictability cost induces underestimation of small probabilities and a fixed bias that remains appreciable even for nearly unbiased observations.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Michael Woodford
We present widely-applicable approximations to the bias and to the variance of the Bayesian mean, obtained under the minimal and biologically-relevant assumption that the encoding results from a series of independent, though not necessarily identically-distributed, signals.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2021 • Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Robert C. Wilson, Jonathan D. Cohen, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
We show that humans adapt their inference process to fine aspects of the temporal structure in the statistics of stimuli.