The brain as a statistical machine
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge)
- đ Date & Time: Friday 17 November 2006, 16:45 - 17:15
- đ Venue: Kaetsu Centre, New Hall
Abstract
Sensory and motor variability (noise) limits the precision with which we can sense the world and act upon it. I will review recent research that has begun to reveal computational principles by which the central nervous system reduces the sensory uncertainty and movement variability arising from this noise.
Series This talk is part of the Physics of Living Matter PLM6 series.
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Professor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge)
Friday 17 November 2006, 16:45-17:15