Computational characterization of perceptual decision-making as contextual inference
The jury will be composed of:
The jury will be composed of:
Punishment involves paying a cost to harm another individual and is thought to be a key mechanism that promotes cooperation. Nevertheless, it is not clear (1) whether punishment has the effect of converting cheats into cooperators or (2) how punishment can be favoured by selection, given that it involves costs to punishers. Here, I will use the cleaner fish-client mutualism as a model species to show that punishment does indeed promote cooperation in some contexts.
How best to describe the cognitive process by which we categorize sensory stimuli, evaluate our options and anticipate the future? This single-day, single-track symposium will gather a group of researchers interested in the computational characterization of decision-making in terms of an inference process, from different perspectives. The symposium will be divided into four sessions of two talks, each session focusing on a particular aspect of the decision process.
The symposium is funded by Inserm and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
Just by listening, humans can determine who is talking to them, whether a window in their house is open or shut, or what their child dropped on the floor in the next room. This ability to derive information from sound is enabled by a cascade of neuronal processing stages that transform the sound waveform entering the ear into cortical representations that are presumed to make behaviorally important sound properties explicit.
Event organized by DEC Life, SAN team (ICM), and the Social Group (LNC² - ENS)
Pour rencontrer Dario Taraborelli, merci de contacter Roberto Casati : roberto.casati@ens.fr.
Résumé :
Abstract:
Perception, cognition and behavior rely on flexible communication
between microcircuits in distinct cortical regions.
The mechanisms underlying rapid information rerouting between such
microcircuits are still unknown. It has been proposed based on growing
experimental evidence that changing patterns of coherence between
local gamma rhythms support flexible information rerouting. The
stochastic and transient nature of gamma oscillations in vivo,
Pour rencontrer Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, merci de contacter Alejandrina Cristia : alejandrina.cristia@ens.fr
Pour rencontrer Chaz Firestone, merci de contacter Brent Strickland : stricklandbrent@gmail.com.
What determines what we see? A tidal wave of recent research alleges that visual experience is 'penetrated' by higher-level cognitive states such as beliefs, desires, emotions, intentions, and linguistic abilities. There is a growing consensus that such effects are ubiquitous, and even that the distinction between seeing and thinking may itself be unsustainable. I argue otherwise: There is in fact no